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Ochre Point–Cliffs Historic District

Historic districts in Newport, Rhode IslandHistoric districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode IslandNRHP infobox with nocatNewport County, Rhode Island Registered Historic Place stubsUse mdy dates from August 2023
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The Ochre Point–Cliffs Historic District is a historic district in Newport, Rhode Island. The district includes a significant subset of the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District, including all of the major Gilded Age mansions on the waterfront facing Easton Bay between Memorial Boulevard and Marine Avenue. The district is home to famous mansions such as the William Watts Sherman House and The Breakers, one of the largest houses in the area built by the Vanderbilt Family. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.It includes Bois Doré, a French chateau-style mansion built in 1927, designed by New York architect Charles A. Platt for William Fahnestock, a New York banker.

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Ochre Point–Cliffs Historic District
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02840 Newport
Rhode Island, United States
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