Tag: local-history
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“Southfields,” One of the Berkshire’s most beautiful private mansions.
Welcome to “Southfields,” a Gilded Age mansion long unseen by the general public. Today, over 120 years after its construction was complete, I have been given explicit permission to tell this estate’s full story for the first time – with photographs from a private tour I was given this past April. And so, without further a-do,…
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The last Newport mansion to fall: “Avalon”
When it was torn down in 2006, “Avalon” was no reflection of its former self. But, exactly 100 years before, this Mediterranean castle was considered one of Newport’s most iconic. Avalon’s story begins in May 1904, when an opulent lawyer by the name of Edward Stephen Rawson purchased about 14 acres of property in the…
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