The Elms, completed in 1901 on Bellevue Avenue in Newport as Edward Julius Berwind’s summer residence, became one of the city’s finest French-inspired Gilded Age estates. Designed by Horace Trumbauer with modern fire-resistant construction and early electrical systems, it paired aristocratic grandeur with advanced technology. Its formal interiors, service spaces, and gardens reveal both elite entertaining and the hidden labor of a large servant staff. The estate also reflected changing transportation, gaining a vast garage in 1910. Nearly demolished after Julia A. Berwind’s death in 1961, it was saved in 1962 and later gained national historic recognition.

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Newport, Rhode Island · USA