The Rosecliff And Marble House Mansions In Newport Rhode Island

I could picture guests at parties roaming down this hall as they migrated from the ballroom to the dining room to the conservatory.

The rosecliff and marble house mansions in newport rhode island.

Newport mansions is a registered trademark of the preservation society of newport county. Marble house is one of the earliest examples of beaux arts architecture in the united states with design inspiration from the petit trianon at the palace of versailles. Jules allard and sons of paris first hired by the vanderbilts to design some of the interiors for their petit chateau on fifth avenue in manhattan designed the french inspired interiors of marble house. It was a social and architectural landmark that set the pace for newport s subsequent transformation from a quiet summer colony of wooden houses to the legendary resort of opulent stone palaces.

It was gigantic and over the top but still felt more like a home than did marble house or rosecliff. Our tickets should not be presented at any other mansion in newport except. But marble house was much more. Edgar monroe of new orleans in 1947.

A center hall ran the length of the mansion.