Crossways (1896-98) (Newport, Rhode Island)

 house, place with historical importance, cottage, condos, mansion / manor house / villa

Crossways, the Stuyvesant and Marion Graves Anthon Fish House (1896-98; Dudley Newton, architect):

A large and prominently sited 21⁄2-story, 9-bay-façade, center-entrance, hip-roof stuccoed house with parged foundation, central 5-bay projecting pavilion on the façade with colossal tetrastyle Corinthian pedimented portico (its tympanum largely glazed as a picture window) across its central 3 bays, dentil-and-modillion cornice, pedimented dormers, 5 tall brick chimneys on the main block, 2 symmetrically placed at the intersection of the façade pediment and main block, and a large 2-story, rectangular-plan ell at rear. At the time of its completion, the house was extensively described in the New York Times.

Fish (1851-1923) was a director of the Illinois Central Railroad and served as its president from 1887 to 1907. Mrs Fish (1855-1916), known as Mamie, a leader, albeit slightly eccentric, in New York and Newport society, ended the Newport summer season each August with her Harvest Festival Ball, held in this house, as was her memorable Mother Goose Ball (at which she eponymously presided) in 1913; she also concocted more unusual entertainments, including a dinner for dogs and a ball at which the guest of honor was a monkey.
In the second quarter of the 20th century, this was the summer house of Ella Morris de Peyster (1881-1957), a collector of 18th-century French decorative arts, many pieces of which were bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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presently (2012) condos though ample and refined to a large degree