Mansion located in Newport designed in the French Renaissance Revival Châteauesque style was the last of the great "Summer Cottages" constructed and is the fifth-largest of Newport's mansions
General Information
Privately owned
Private property
How to Get There
From Newport, RI: Follow Bellevue Avenue south, turn onto Ruggles Avenue, and continue toward the Cliff Walk; Seaview Terrace is visible from public sections of the Cliff Walk near Sheep Point Cove.
Overview
Seaview Terrace, also known as the Carey Mansion, is a privately owned mansion located in Newport, Rhode Island. It was designed in the French Renaissance Revival Châteauesque style and completed in 1925. It was the last of the great "Summer Cottages" constructed and is the fifth-largest of Newport's mansions, after The Breakers, Ochre Court, Belcourt Castle, and Rough Point. The television show Dark Shadows used its exterior as the fictional Collinwood Mansion. Part of the main house and some of the outbuildings were leased to Salve Regina University until recently.
Cecilia Hall features a whispering gallery, an elliptical room reminiscent of Saint Paul's Cathedral, in which a person standing at one of the foci can hear the slightest whisper uttered at the other.
The Flagellation (circa 1544-47) was an early-Renaissance stained-glass window designed for Milan Cathedral. It was part of a series portraying the Passion of Christ, and believed to have been made in the workshop of Currado Mochis da Colonia. The window was bought by Edson Bradley for the house when it was located on Dupont Circle, and may have once been owned by Stanford White.
Carey Mansion's pipe organ, Opus 2140, was made by Jacob Estey of Estey Organ Company, Brattleboro, Vermont. It has a Tremolo Electric Detached Console Automatic Player which includes Great pipes, Swell, and multiple pedals. It is no longer operational, and the console is missing.
Carey Mansion has never throughout its history had any sort of rigid fencing or wall surrounding the property. There are two main gateposts, but around most of the rest of the property a decorative hedge is used, rather unsuccessfully, to keep people away, making it the largest of its kind in Newport with such a characteristic. There is a short length of five foot (1.5 meter) high fencing along the western edge dividing the property from Fairlawn (AKA Salve's Young Building). The fence runs between the Fairlawn carriage house and Seaview's gate house from Ruggles Avenue to approximately 150 feet from the southwestern corner of the Seaview property.
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