'
Claradon Court', the
Edward C. Knight Jr. estate designed by
Horace Trumbauer c. 1904 in Newport,
Rhode Island. Knight named the house for his wife, Clara Dwight (which would have made her Clara Dwight Knight). The estate was later owned by Col. William Hayward who changed the name to '
Clarendon Court'. Click
HERE to see '
Claradon Court' on google earth and
HERE on bing. The estate is currently for sale for $15,800,000, click
HERE to see the listing via Gustave White.
Photos from
Architectural Review, 1908.
'Claradon Court', the Edward C. Knight Jr. estate designed by Horace Trumbauer c. 1904 in Newport, Rhode Island. Knight named the house for his wife, Clara Dwight (which would have made her Clara Dwight Knight). The estate was later owned by Col. William Hayward who changed the name to 'Clarendon Court'. Click HERE to see 'Claradon Court' on google earth and HERE on bing. The estate is currently for sale for $15,800,000, click HERE to see the listing via Gustave White.
Photos from Architectural Review, 1908.
10 comments:
Bad juju.
Looks as if the home was enlarged at some point with 2 rear wings? Classically beautiful exterior and located next to Miramar which supposedly was returned to private ownership.
It's a Trumbauer. What's not to like and so much to love - like that stairway? I think the addition on the back was an improvement. Great neighborhood too. The VonBulow history shouldn't be considered more than a blip in Clarendon's Legacy. VonBulow who?
The flanking wings on the ocean front, added by Trumbauer four years after the initial construction, definitely improve the ocean front of this superb house. Just to cross-reference, let's not forget that Mrs. Hayward, the next owner was formerly Mrs. Morton Plant (or if you prefer to call her by her full name, Maisie Mainwaring Caldwell Plant Hayward Rovensky). The Plants, you may recall, traded their Fifth Avenue mansion, now the Cartier Building, for a string of pearls (or so legend says).
http://www.beyondthegildedage.com/2012/01/morton-f-plant-residence.html
As for Mr. Knight, after he sold out in Newport, he moved next to Middletown, next door to Newport, and had Trumbauer design this new house. Be sure to scope out the former service complex across Indian Avenue, also:
http://www.beyondthegildedage.com/2012/01/morton-f-plant-residence.html
And by coincidence, I've just interviewed Michael Kathrens, author of "American Splendor, the Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer", which has just been reprinted by Acanthus in a new revised and enlarged version (and is wonderful---Charlton Hall on Long Island is included). That interview will appear soon in NYSD.
There. Have I left anything out? I tried finding an online copy of the plate of Hedworth House, the design by Colen Campbell published in Vitruvius Britanicus, which provided Trumbauer with design inspiration. Ancient?
I have a color view of the sunken ( on all four sides ) garden, on the east/ocean side of the house, that I took in the late 1950s. Will endeavor to locate it and forward the view to Zach for a possible future posting. Personally, I would have kept the sunken garden and put the pool out by the old, distant, garden near the former stables.
Oops. I didn't properly paste the link to the Knight's new cottage in Middletown. Here it is:
http://binged.it/Hqb92Z
Old Grey Dog--as you may have noticed, I have several recurring themes, and one of them is the constant wonder that so many people now think that one's swimming pool needs to be within diving distance of one's parlor window. The old idea of a pleasant spot away from the house seems gone with the wind. In other words, I agree with you.
TDED --
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Regarding 'Stonybrook', Knight's estate on the Sakonnet River in Middletown, just outside of Newport . . . it is not generally know but Syngman Rhee, the strong-arm puppet that the U.S. set up to rule South Korea, occupied the place ( in secret at the time ) with CIA protection after he was ousted circa 1960. Even then it was not deemed safe enough for him to stay on the premises nights . . . so he was escorted to a smallish stone castle in Rehoboth, Mass., about thirty miles north, in order to sleep in further seclusion ! Great Scott !!!
Is that a Calvert Vaux house next door to Clarendon Court?
In addition to the two rear wings (agreed that they improve the house) it appears that decorative elements were added all along the roof line.
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