The Rocks - Henry Clews estate (Newport, Rhode Island)

 house, place with historical importance, cottage, demolished, interesting place

The Rocks
Boit-Clews Estate c. 1870
Architect: John Hubbard Sturgis
Located on Ocean Avenue (west of Bailey's Beach)
Demolished: c.1945


Built by Boston architect Russell Sturgis for the Boston artist Edward Darley Boit and his wife Mary Louisa Cushing Boit, The Rocks was a rambling timber and granite Queen Anne villa sited on land belonging to Mrs. Boit’s family. Following the Boits’ departure for Paris, The Rocks was acquired by Robert B. Potter and, by 1890, it was the summer estate of New York banker Henry Clews (1836 – February 1, 1923). The dramatic setting of the house, melting into a boulder-strewn field overlooking the famed Spouting Rock, inspired the artistic aspirations of Henry Clews Jr., who became a noted sculptor. The house was demolished and its grounds incorporated into the adjoining Cushing property between 1945 and 1950.

more on Clews - archive.org/stream/historyofnewport00bayl#page/582/mode... [Baynes]