Chateau-sur-Mer, Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Newport County, RI
Summary
Significance: "Chateau-sur-Mer," its lodge, entrance arch, and greenhouse were built in 1851-1852 by the Newport contractor Seth C. Bradford for William Shepard Wetmore, merchant in the China trade. His son, George Peabody Wetmore, greatly enlarged the house in successive major campaigns in the 1870s and 1880s under Richard Morris Hunt, with interior decoration by Luigi Frullini. Wetmore further developed the outbuildings and grounds. His daughters, Edith and Maude Wetmore, maintained the house in proper style until their deaths. The estate was sold at auction in 1969 to The Preservation Society of Newport County.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-50
Survey number: HABS RI-313
Building/structure dates: 1854 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1870-1880 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1903
Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1930 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 68000002
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