As a Vanderbilt student, the Breakers in Newport are a natural favorite of mine. Businessman and “Commodore” Cornelius Vanderbilt built the mansion as a summer home for him and his family in the late ...

The Preservation Society of Newport County was able to secure about 20 items on loan from the Library of Congress, a first for the organization. A new lighting system installed for this and one ...

A pair of wartime Nissen huts in the grounds of a mansion could be recreated after being damaged during restoration work. The outbuildings in the grounds of Great Chatwell House, near Newport ...

A pair of wartime Nissen huts in the grounds of a mansion could be recreated after being damaged during restoration work. The outbuildings in the grounds of Great Chatwell House, near Newport, were ...

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 ...

A gated Newport Coast estate in the middle of a down ... a $37 million Palladian-style mansion at the other end of the same guard-gated Pelican Crest community as this one. In a video posted ...

The remains were found in the wealthy coastal enclave of Watch Hill, part of the town of Westerly, Rhode Island, just down the beach from a sprawling mansion owned by pop superstar Taylor Swift.

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 ...

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 ...

Later in life she relocated to Portsmouth, RI and, subsequently, to Saint Clare Home in Newport. Doris was a valued employee at T.D. Brown, Inc. for many years. Later, she was a bookkeeper for the ...