Rosecliff
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Rosecliff is a Gilded Age mansion of Newport, Rhode Island, now open to the public as a historic house museum. The house has also been known as the Hermann Oelrichs House or the J. Edgar Monroe House.
Rosecliff
Stanford White
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Stanford White was an American architect and a partner in the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White, one of the most significant Beaux-Arts firms at the turn of the 20th century. White designed many
Rosecliff
…becoming, with Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont (of nearby Belcourt), one of the three great hostesses of Newport." The principal architect, Stanford White, modeled the mansion after the Grand Trianon of Versailles, but smaller and reduced to a basic "H" shape, while keeping Mansart's scheme of a glazed…
Photograph of White by George Cox, c. 1892
William Rutherford Mead, Charles Follen McKim and Stanford White
The Gilded Age mansion Rosecliff, Newport, Rhode Island, built between 1898 and 1902
White in 1895