Interior, Marble House (1892)*

Artist/Designer: Richard Morris Hunt

Project Location: Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Figure 1: Richard Morris Hunt, Marble House. Source: Gavin Ashworth, The Preservation Society of Newport County - Gold Room Interior. Digital Image. ( Source | Accessed : April 15, 2015 )

Figure 2: Richard Morris Hunt and Jules Allard et Fils, bronze figures by Karl Bitter, draperies by Prelle & Co. Marble House. Source: Unknown, Newport - Gold Room Interior. Digital Image. ( Source | Accessed : April 15, 2015 )

Figure 3: Richard Morris Hunt, Marble House. Source: Nathan Benn/Corbis/Ottochrome, Newport - Gold Room Detail. 1984, Digital Image. Available from: Corbis Images, ( Source | Accessed : April 15, 2015 )

Figure 4: Richard Morris Hunt, Marble House. Source: Gavin Ashworth, The Preservation Society of Newport County - Gothic Room. Digital Image. ( Source | Accessed : April 15, 2015 )

Figure 5: Richard Morris Hunt, Marble House. Source: Minnie, Newport - Alva's Bedroom. 2015, Digital Image. ( Source | Accessed : April 15, 2015 )

Figure 6: Richard Morris Hunt, Marble House. Source: Minnie, Newport - Dinging Room. 2015, Digital Image. ( Source | Accessed : April 15, 2015 )

Figure 7: Richard Morris Hunt, Marble House. Source: Minnie, Newport - Grand staircase. 2015, Digital Image. ( Source | Accessed : April 15, 2015 )

Figure 8: Richard Morris Hunt, Marble House. Source: Unknown, Newport - Exterior. Digital Image. ( Source | Accessed : April 15, 2015 )

Figure 9: Richard Morris Hunt, Marble House. Source: Unknown, Newport - First and Second Floor Plan. Digital Image. ( Source | Accessed : April 15, 2015 )

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Style/Period(s):
Gothic Revival

Primary Material(s):
Glass, Wood

Function(s):
Residential Structure

Related Website(s):

New York Social Diary. | Accessed : September 9, 2013

The Preservation Society of Newport County | Accessed : September 9, 2013

Virginia University. "Richard Morris Hunt Biography." | Accessed : September 9, 2013

Significant Date(s):
19th Century

Additional Information:

Publications/Texts in Print:

Craven, Wayne. Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

Yarnall, James. Newport Through Its Architecture: A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern. Lebanon: University Press of New England, 2005.

Downing, Antoinette F. and Vincent J. Scully Jr. The Architectural Heritage of Newport, RI, 1640-1915. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.

Stein, Susan R., ed. The Architecture of Richard Morris Hunt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Richard, Cheek. Newport Mansions: The Gilded Age. Norfolk: Foremost Publications, 1982.

Kathrens, Michael C. Newport Villas: The Revival Styles, 1885-1935. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.

Building Address
596 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, Rhode Island

Significant Dates:

Built between 1888 and 1892

China Tea Houses added in 1896

Mansion closed permanently in 1919

Sold to Frederick H. Prince in 1932

Preservation Society of Newport County bought the house from the Prince Trust in 1963

Added to National Register of Historic Places on September 10, 1971

Supporting Staff/ Designers:

N/A

Tags:

New England, Rhode Island, gilded age, mansion, Newport, Vanderbilts

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