Redwood Library, Newport Rhode Island
The Redwood Library is a notable specimen of the architectural taste of the early 18th century. As an important work of the architect Peter Harrison, it is a key building in the introduction of English Georgian architecture in America.
Redwood Library was the outgrowth of the Philosophical Club which had been organized under the title of "The Society for the Promotion of Knowledge and Virtue by a Free Conversation". The membership and history of the Library is a record of events and personages important in the history of Newport.
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This is a good, representative example of the bracketed, frame houses of the mid 19th century.
In 1934, Charles C. Grant, architect, of Maplewood, New Jersey, made interior alterations, including a breakfast room. The plans are in the house. Apparently there were extensive interior rearrangements, new stairway, new floors, and the addition of Colonial Revival details.
More...Mary T. Porter House, Newport Rhode Island
This is a large Italianate granite house, an early example of the larger scale of summer houses being erected in Newport from the mid 19th century, and an example of the work of the architect Seth Bradford
The house is reputed to be haunted. See Smith, Susy, Haunted Haunted Houses for the Millions, Los Angeles: Sherbourne Press, Inc., 1967, pp. 43-45.
More...Wanton-Hunter House, Newport Rhode Island
This justly celebrated Colonial Mansion is one of the oldest, if not the oldest house now standing on Washington Street. From the historical researches made thus far it appears to have been built prior to 1730, though owing to the water-soaked condition of the old records the exact date has not been as yet definitely determined. Here gracious hospitality was dispensed for years by its original owner, Deputy Governor Jonathan Nichols, Jr., son of Deputy Governor Jonathan Nichols, both these public-spirited gentlemen taking an active part in the affairs of the Colony. Both died in office.
After the death of Deputy Governor Jonathan Nichols, Jr., the house became the property of Colonel Joseph Wanton, Jr., who also filled the office of Deputy Governor, and who lived here for a number of years. He was a Royalist, and during the Revolution found more congenial residence in New York, where he died on August 7, 1780.
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