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Construction started in 1899, but the sharp winter slowed construction Mrs.

The commission was given to McKim, Mead, and White in 1898, and the New York branch of Jules Allard and Sons were engaged as interior decorators. White's Rosecliff adds to the Grand Trianon a second storey with a balustraded roofline that conceals the set-back third storey, containing twenty small servants' rooms and the pressing room for the laundry.

#Escape rosecliff manor game windows

The principal architect, Stanford White, modeled the mansion after the Grand Trianon of Versailles, but smaller and reduced to a basic 'H' shape, while keeping Mansart's scheme of a glazed arcade of arched windows and paired Ionic pilasters, which increase to columns across the central loggia. Belmont (of nearby Belcourt), one of the three great hostesses of Newport.'

With little opportunity to channel her considerable energy elsewhere, she 'threw herself into the social scene with tremendous gusto, becoming, with Mrs. She and her husband, together with her sister, Virginia Fair, bought the land in 1891 from the estate of George Bancroft and commissioned the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White to design a summer home suitable for entertaining on a grand scale. She was the wife of Hermann Oelrichs, American agent for Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship line. It was built 1898вЂ“1902 by Theresa Fair Oelrichs, a silver heiress from Nevada, whose father James Graham Fair was one of the four partners in the Comstock Lode. The house has also been known as the Hermann Oelrichs House or the J. Rosecliff is a Gilded Age mansion of Newport, Rhode Island, now open to the public as a historic house museum.