Formerly the Stone Villa estate (Newport, Rhode Island)

 estate (manor / mansion land), historical layer / disappeared object

Stone Villa (1833)
* Middleton, Brooks, Bennet, Whitehouse Estate
* Architect: Alexander McGregor, embellished by Dudley Newton and the firm of McIntosh & Alger
* Demolished: 1957

An impressive fieldstone and granite-trimmed Italianate manor house built by Newport stonemason Alexander McGregor, Stone Villa was significantly embellished by local architect Dudley Newton and by the firm of McIntosh & Alger for James Gordon Bennett, publisher of the New York and the Paris Herald. Bennett was responsible for the installation of the gatepost owls, symbolic of the New York Herald. The house had been a Newport landmark since the earlier days of such occupants as the Middleton family of Charleston, South Carolina, and the Brooks family of Boston. Later still it became associated with Imperial Russia when leased by successive Russian Ambassadors as the summer legation and residence. The estate’s final owner was William F. Whitehouse of New York from whose estate the property was acquired by developers in 1957 and demolished for the Bellevue Shopping Center.