A Group of Newport Palaces 



COMMUNITY of wealth and pleasure, Newport 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; but 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 



i opyrlgbt, 1897. by Frank 1*. Child, Newport, R. 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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