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The Beeches (Newport, Rhode Island)

USA / Rhode Island / Newport / Newport, Rhode Island / Bellevue Avenue
 place with historical importance, cottage, mansion / manor house / villa

(c. 1870)
Architect : George Champlin Mason, Sr.
• George Champlin Mason, Sr. designed this Second Empire French style house for sugar merchant Moses Lazarus of New York, who lived in the house in the 1870s.
• Lazarus’ daughter Emma became a prolific writer and feminist. An excerpt from her sonnet The New Colossus (1883) is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . . ”.
• Moses supported Emma’s writing both intellectually and financially. Transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson also mentored and encouraged her.
• The Beeches remains a private residence.

www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=48616

[1907 map shows as 'Wyndhurst' , L.F. Post - www.historicmapworks.com/Overlay/?m=18613&c=US ]
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Coordinates:   41°27'29"N   71°18'24"W
This article was last modified 8 years ago