Miramar

Streetcar magnate George Dunton Widener of Philadelphia commissioned noted architect Horace Trumbauer in the early 1900s to build his family a summer home in Newport. During the planning, Widener and his wife, Eleanor, and their son, Harry Elkins Widener, traveled to Europe.
On the return trip, in 1912, the father and son went down with the Titanic, but Eleanor Widener survived.

[@rockmassa4151]

David Ford did a magnificent job restoring this home, before his untimely death. Just beautiful

[@MapYoda]

Agreed!

[@douglastunnell6992]

This "House" does NOT look empty.

[@cynthialambert9067]

It's never been empty, and was just sold for $20-30 million.

[@joyr.5689]

Beautiful!! Thank you!

[@patriciacalunniato6872]

Just beautiful

[@virginiaeckley3047]

Absolutely Beautiful 😍❤

[@sps4075]

Alhamdulila 😊

[@lj5801]

It's a pity that the "giant economy size" version of this mansion (Rose Terrace in Grosse Pointe Farms, MI) was torn down. Mrs. Dodge had Miramar's architect, Horace Trumbauer, build her a copy - only bigger!

[@Napp28]

The architect literally made a carbon copy eh? Just making one mansion slightly larger. Everything is identical, right down to the main staircase. Interesting side note; Today I own a guest bedroom set and a liquor cabinet from Rose Terrace II. In 1972 my great grandparents (Windsor, ON) went over to an auction of the estates contents and walked away with a GORGEOUS French bed set (Walnut wood) and a large cabinet which had wood carvings to match woodwork in the rooms paneling. Today I can only fit one bed in my guestroom but have the second one in storage.

[@lj5801]

@@Napp28 I've only read about Anna Dodge wanting the exterior to be the same but larger (see: Dodge Dynasty by Latham and Agresta); not sure about the interior being the same. Quite a bit of the interior design was removed and is in a home in Arizona. It was on one of those "open house" tv shows several years ago.

[@Napp28]

@@lj5801 thanks for the information, I'll look for that TV show of the mansion in Arizona. The interior design and layout is very similar .. just Rose Terrace is *stretched* at the corners. There is a space at the Detroit Institute of Art which is basically made of the furniture and wall paneling of the French Drawing room; this exhibit also has a jewel case that was owned by Queen Marie Antoinette which was later purchased by Mrs Dodge. The majority of the interior contents were sold at auction. Today literally the terrace balustrade and the mansion iron gates are all that remain of the house on site. Having 12 uninspirong 1970s homes built on the property. The yacht which was docked at Rose Terrace II is STILL sailing and was recently restored to its 1920s grandeur. Also, there is a tour of Rose Terrace II which was filmed before it was demolished and thus program is on youtube.

[@Wanamaker1946]

Awful music, and that hideous “mid-century” crap has seeped into Newport too. God, it’s ugly what they do to ruin someone else’s work.