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Newport summer palaces to be built. The house was conceived in 1922 and built between 1923 and 1925, incorporating an existing
Elizabethan residence known as Seaview (1885) formerly owned by James Kernochan. In keeping with its seaside location, the 65-room manor house features turrets,
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Corning Brick and Terra Cotta and Tile Company. A sculptured relief above the main entrance was designed by the New York sculptor
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stained-glass windows, high, arching doorways and shell motifs that adorn the facade. Rooms imported intact from France were moved from the
Bradley home in Washington, D.C. to Newport, and reassembled with the chateau constructed around them.
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