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Rough Point
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Tobacco heiress and preservationist Doris Duke furnished her 39,000-square-foot English manorial-style house at the southern end of Bellevue Avenue with family treasures and fine art and antiques she purchased on her world travels. Highlights include paintings by Renoir, van Dyck and Gainsborough, numerous Chinese porcelains, Turkish carpets and Belgian tapestries, and a suite of Louis XVI chairs. Duke's two camels Baby and Princess (which came with an airplane she had purchased from a Middle Eastern businessman) once summered here on the expansive grounds designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Duke bequeathed the oceanfront house with all its contents to the Newport Restoration Foundation to operate as a museum after her death. Each year, the foundation assembles an exhibit devoted to Duke's lifestyle and interests that is included in guided tours.
- Address: 680 Bellevue Ave., Newport, RI, 02840 | Map It
- Phone: 401/847-8344
- Cost: $25
- Hours: Mid-Apr.--mid-May, Thurs.--Sat. 10--2; mid-May--early Nov., Tues.--Sat. 9:45--3:45
- Website: www.newportrestoration.org
- Location: Newport
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