A Group of Newport Palaces 



COMMUNITY of wealth and pleasure, Ncw]:)ort is the chief city in the United States 

 in which these characteristics are thoroughly dominant. The social aspects of this 

 summer capital — for its in-gatherings of pleasure-loving people are truly national — 

 are known of all men ; Init the highly important fact that this great social activity 

 needs and necessitates an architectural background, a habitat, a scene and setting commen- 

 surate with its splendid pleasures, is less generally recognized, or certainly very much less 



Copyright, 1897, by Frank M. Cliild, Newpi.rt. K. I, 



"THE BREAKERS"— THE DRAWING-ROOM. 



heard of. Yet the houses of Newport are most important to the gay doings of this beautiful 

 city ; for the life of Newport is concerned solely with pleasure and with entertainment, and fine 

 houses, richly furnished and decorated, spacious and elegant, built and adorned with a delight- 

 ful disregard of cost and expense, with beautiful grounds arranged in a sumptuous fashion 

 — these are the requirements, and the legitimate requirements, of Newport palaces. 



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