In November 2022, MacArthur Fellow Shamel Pitts and his arts collective TRIBE were in the middle of a Jacob‘s Pillow residency at the Doris Duke Theatre when the building was destroyed by a pre ...

Ever popular, Yankee Magazine also suggested a visit to the Newport Mansions, so pretty they are heavily featured in the show "The Gilded Age." What Yankee Magazine said about Newport Mansions ...

David Franzen The "Turkish Room" was created from pieces of the interior of a 19th-century Damascus mansion. David Franzen In 1938, American tobacco heiress Doris Duke embarked on one of her ...

The Newport Restoration Foundation is opening a new gallery at Rough Point Museum on June 12, dedicated to Doris Duke’s fashion collection. This Doris Duke Fashion Gallery will feature rotating ...

Newport is on the Conde Nast Traveler list for best beach towns on the East Coast There are several other locations of New England on the list Everyone knows that Rhode Island has some great beach ...

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, established in 1996 in honor of the late daughter of the founder of the American Tobacco Co., is launching the Doris Duke Native Oral History Revitalization ...

As heir to the family fortune, he built a 70-room, 138,300-square-foot mansion on the shores of Newport, Rhode Island, as a summer escape for his wife, Alice Vanderbilt, and their seven children.