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Rosecliff

Rosecliff
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Rosecliff is located in Rhode Island
Rosecliff
Rosecliff is located in the US
Rosecliff
Location 548 Bellevue Ave., Newport, Rhode Island
Coordinates 41°27′55″N 71°18′20″W / 41.46528°N 71.30556°W / 41.46528; -71.30556Coordinates: 41°27′55″N 71°18′20″W / 41.46528°N 71.30556°W / 41.46528; -71.30556
Area 6.5 acres (2.6 ha)
Built 1898-1902
Architect Stanford WhiteMcKim,Mead & White
Architectural style French Baroque Revival
Part of Bellevue Avenue Historic District (#72000023)
NRHP Reference # 73000059
Significant dates
Added to NRHP February 6, 1973
Designated NHLDCP December 8, 1972

Rosecliff, built 1898-1902, is one of the Gilded Age mansions 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.

It was built by Theresa Fair Oelrichs, a silver heiress from Nevada, whose father James Graham Fair was one of the four partners in the . She was the wife of Hermann Oelrichs, American agent for Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship line. She and her husband, together with her sister, Virginia Fair, bought the land in 1891 from the estate of George Bancroft and commissioned the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White to design a summer home suitable for entertaining on a grand scale. With little opportunity to channel her considerable energy elsewhere, she "threw herself into the social scene with tremendous gusto, 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 arcade of arched windows and paired Ionic pilasters, which increase to columns across the central loggia. White's Rosecliff adds to the Grand Trianon a second storey with a balustraded roofline that conceals the set-back third storey, containing twenty small servants' rooms and the pressing room for the laundry.


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