The Beeches (Newport, Rhode Island)
USA /
Rhode Island /
Newport /
Newport, Rhode Island /
Bellevue Avenue
World
/ USA
/ Rhode Island
/ Newport
World / United States / Rhode Island
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 ]
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 ]
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°27'29"N 71°18'24"W
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- The Ledges - Cushing Family Compound 1 km
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- Hammersmith Farm 3.9 km
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- Bailey's Beach - Spouting Rock Beach Association 0.6 km
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- Lily Pond 1.3 km
- The Breakers 1.5 km
- Chateau-sur-Mer (1851–1852) 1.5 km
- Rogers High School 1.7 km
- Salve Regina University 1.8 km
- Ballard Park (1990) 1.8 km
- Halidon Hall - Isaac Hartshorn House / Estate (ca. 1854) 2.1 km
- Newport County, Rhode Island 12 km