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Rosecliff

1900s architecture in the United StatesBaroque Revival architectureGilded Age mansionsHistoric house museums in Rhode IslandHouses completed in 1902
Houses in Newport County, Rhode IslandHouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode IslandIndividually listed contributing properties to historic districts on the National Register in Rhode IslandMcKim, Mead & White buildingsMuseums in Newport, Rhode IslandNRHP infobox with nocatNational Register of Historic Places in Newport, Rhode IslandNeoclassical architecture in Rhode IslandOelrichs familyStanford White buildings
Rosecliff (1308020662)
Rosecliff (1308020662)

Rosecliff is a Gilded Age mansion 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 1898–1902 by Theresa Fair Oelrichs, a silver heiress from Nevada, whose father James Graham Fair was one of the four partners in the Comstock Lode. 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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Rosecliff
Marine Avenue, Newport

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