Tag: travel
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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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The unique history of Louis Comfort Tiffany’s “Laurelton Hall”
What happens when you give one of the 20th century’s most notable artists a 300 acre plot of land just an hour out of New York City? Chances are, within just 5 years time, a castle of the most grand proportions and an estate incomparable to any other will stand in the place of what…
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