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Chateau-sur-Mer, the first Newport palace
1852
Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island
Skip Plitt - C'ville Photography · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The first of the Bellevue Avenue palaces and the one that started the arms race, built on the China trade forty years before the Vanderbilts arrived. Its 1857 Fete Champetre for two thousand guests was the largest party the country had seen.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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