Luxury Home of the Week: A palatial Gilded Age Newport estate for $14 million
Get ready to live like Newport’s Gilded Age elite.
Many of Newport’s grand mansions have been converted into museums, but some, like The Orchard, are still private residences. Completed in 1873, The Orchard was designed to replicate a European chateau. It encompasses main and carriage houses that span 24,332 square feet and are surrounded by 4.75 acres of gardens. The estate was recently restored and is being offered furnished and with antiques and art for $14,000,000 (save for a few especially valuable pieces that are available through separate negotiation). Stacie Mills of Vanderbilt International Properties Ltd. has the listing.
Located at 180 Narragansett Ave., the 18,591-square-foot mansion was created for Colonel George R. Fearing and Harriet Travers. Fearing was once president of the Knickerbocker Club in New York City and cofounded Newport Casino. According to the listing, he commissioned a French architect to complete drawings of a French chateau, which were based on an 18th-century country home on the outskirts of Geneva. Newport architectural firm George Champlin Mason & Son then adapted those drawings for the Rhode Island estate.
Today the home’s original gilded gates open to a tree-lined drive leading to an 11-bedroom main house with 11 full bathrooms, three half bathrooms, and 11 fireplaces. The foyer flows into a marble entrance room bordered by some of the home’s many reception areas: a library, a drawing room with garden access, a dining room with French doors to the terrace, a sitting room, a bar and cigar room, and a family room. A laundry room and a kitchen connected to a breakfast room and a walk-in pantry round out this level.
Saunter up the staircase — or take the elevator connecting the first two floors — to the second level, which is home to the primary suite and four bedrooms. The former offers a marble bathroom, a large closet, a dressing room, and a private terrace that looks out to the ocean.
There are six bedrooms on the third floor, while the home’s lower level houses a host of amenities, including a gym and spa, a movie theater, a game room, a staff room, and a heated indoor pool.
The 5,741-square foot carriage house features a three-bay garage, study, conservatory, and two apartments, offering a total of three bedrooms and two baths. The lush grounds feature rare specimen trees, a 150-year-old Florentine bronze and marble fountain, two gazebos, and two heated swimming pools.
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