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{{Short description|Privately owned mansion in Newport, Rhode Island}}
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'''Carey Mansion''', originally called '''SeaView Terrace''', is a sprawling ] château located in ]. It was the last of the great "Summer Cottages” constructed, and is the fifth-largest of Newport's mansions &mdash; after ], ], ], and ]. '''Seaview Terrace''', also known as the '''Carey Mansion''', is a privately owned mansion located in ]. It was designed in the ] style based on the ] of the 16th century, and completed in 1925. It was the last of the great "Summer Cottages" constructed and is the fifth-largest of Newport's mansions, after ], ], ], and ]. The television show '']'' used its exterior as the fictional ]. Part of the main house and some of the outbuildings were leased to ] until recently.

The television show '']'' used its exterior as the fictional ]. Until recently, part of the main house and some of the outbuildings were leased to ].


==History== ==History==
From the 1850s to the early 20th century, fashionable wealthy families built elaborate mansions in Newport to be used for entertaining during the summer season. From the 1850s to the early 20th century, fashionable wealthy families built elaborate mansions in Newport to be used for entertaining during the summer season.


===SeaView Terrace=== ===Seaview Terrace===
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⚫ In 1907, liquor millionaire ] built a French-Gothic mansion on the south side of ] in ] It covered more than half a city block, and included a Gothic chapel with seating for 150, a large ballroom, an art gallery, and a 500-seat theatre &mdash; 90 feet by 120 feet, and several stories tall, completed in 1911 &mdash; known as Aladdin's Palace.<ref>"Here's A Brand New Use For Wealth&mdash;Build A Theatre Right In Your Home!" ''The Sunday Morning Star'' (Wilmington, Delaware), 12 November 1911, p. 9.</ref>


⚫ In 1907, whiskey millionaire ] built a French-Gothic mansion on the south side of ] in ] It covered more than half a city block, and included a Gothic chapel with seating for 150, a large ballroom, an art gallery, and a 500-seat theatre—90 feet by 120 feet, and several stories tall, completed in 1911—known as Aladdin's Palace.<ref>"Here's a Brand New Use for Wealth—Build a Theatre Right in Your Home!" ''The Sunday Morning Star'' (Wilmington, Delaware), 12 November 1911, p. 9.</ref>
⚫ In 1923, the 71-year-old Bradley began disassembling his Washington, D.C. mansion and relocating it to a Newport property at Ruggles and Wetmore Avenues. ''Seaview'', the 1885 Elizabethan-Revival mansion already on the site, was incorporated into the design, and lent its name to the new chateau.<ref>Vertiges of ''Seaview'', the 1885 mansion originally on the site can be seen in the chateau's north wing.</ref> Work on the exterior continued for two years, and required the use of many railroad cars and trucks. Rooms that had been imported intact from France and installed in Washington, D.C. 20 years earlier, were moved again and reassembled in Newport, and the new building was constructed around them. When the interiors were completed in 1928, there were 17 rooms on the first floor, 25 on the second, and 12 on the third. It is believed to have been one of the largest buildings to be moved in this manner.


⚫ In 1923, Bradley began disassembling his Washington, D.C. mansion and relocating it to a Newport property at Ruggles and Wetmore avenues. "Sea View", the 1885 Elizabethan-Revival mansion already on the site, was incorporated into the design, and lent its name to the new chateau.<ref>Vestiges of "Sea View", the 1885 James P. Kernochan mansion originally on the site, can be seen in the chateau's north wing.</ref> Work on the exterior continued for two years, and required the use of many railroad cars and trucks. Rooms that had been imported intact from France and installed in Washington, D.C. twenty years earlier were moved again and reassembled in Newport, and the new building was constructed around them. When the interiors were completed in 1925, there were 17 rooms on the first floor, 25 on the second, and 12 on the third. It is believed to have been one of the largest buildings to be moved in this manner.
⚫ SeaView Terrace cost over $2,000,000 to build. The main house featured turrets, stained-glass windows, high arching doorways and, in keeping with its seaside location, shell motifs. The ] awarded Bradley's architect, ], a 1928 medal for the chateau.


⚫ Seaview Terrace cost over $2,000,000 to build. The main house featured turrets, stained-glass windows, high arching doorways and, in keeping with its seaside location, shell motifs. The American League of Architects awarded Bradley's architect, ], a 1928 medal for the chateau.
⚫ Mrs. Bradley died in August 1929, and her funeral was held in the house's chapel. Edson Bradley spent five more summers at the mansion before his death in 1935.


⚫ Bradley's wife, Julia Williams Bradley, died in August 1929, and her funeral was held in the house's chapel. Edson Bradley spent five more summers at the mansion before his death in 1935.
⚫ The Bradleys' daughter, ], took over the estate and lived there until the late 1930s with her husband, the Right Reverend ], Protestant ]. She vacated the house after the ] caused severe damage. During ], the house was used by the ] as officers' quarters. In 1949 the property was sold for only $8,000.


⚫ The Bradleys' daughter, Julie Bradley Shipman, took over the estate and lived there until 1941. Her husband, the Right Reverend ], Episcopal Bishop of New York, died in 1930. She vacated the house after a dispute with the City over non-payment of three years' back taxes. During ], the house was used by the ] as officers' quarters. In 1949 the property was sold for only $8,000.
===Burnham-by-the-Sea===
In 1950, it became an exclusive all-girl summer boarding school, and was renamed "Burnham-by-the-Sea". The house was owned and the summer school run by Mr. and Mrs. ]. During the academic year, Mrs. Emerson was a headmistress for the Mary Burnham School for Girls in ]. In 1968, the Mary Burnham School merged with the Stoneleigh Prospect Hill School to become the ], which took over operation of the summer school.<ref>During the summer of 1973 the movie '']'' was filmed next door. All the children at the school, who had a 9 pm curfew, spent the evenings listening to the filming of the cars driving up and down the old Oelrichs property, ].</ref> Even with revived use, the mansion's dilapidated condition was a cause of concern.


===Private schools===
⚫ From 1966 to 1971, the Gothic horror soap opera ] used Burnham-by-the-Sea as the exterior set for the fictional ].
In 1950, the property became an exclusive all-girl summer boarding school, and was renamed "Burnham-by-the-Sea". The house was owned and the summer school run by Mr. and Mrs. George Waldo Emerson. During the academic year, Mrs. Emerson was a headmistress for the Mary Burnham School for Girls in ].

In 1968, the Mary Burnham School merged with the Stoneleigh Prospect Hill School to become the ], but the summer school continued to be run by the Emersons until they sold Seaview Terrace. During the regular school year, the school operated as Newport School for Girls. In 1971 and 1972, Seaview Terrace also was home for The New School, grades 2 through 8. Headmaster for the New School was Fr. Toller Cranston.

====Filming====
⚫ From 1966 to 1971, the Gothic horror soap opera '']'' used Burnham-by-the-Sea as the exterior set for the fictional ], which in turn inspired the depiction of the Kingston Mansion in the "What the Hex Is Going On?" episode of '']''.

During the summer of 1973 the movie '']'' was filmed next door. All the children at the school, who had a 9 pm curfew, spent the evenings listening to the filming of the cars driving up and down the old Oelrichs property, ].


===Carey Mansion=== ===Carey Mansion===
In 1974, Martin and Millicent Carey of New York purchased the mansion. Restoration commenced soon after, with particular attention focused on the crumbling facade. The ivy and vines, which had been permitted to grow untamed since Mrs. Shipman left the house in 1938, had caused severe damage to the facades, which required thousands of dollars worth of repairs. The Careys began several remodeling projects on the western half of the building and commissioned the Tinneys, glass artisan owners of the Belmont estate, ], to restore the windows in the Solarium. In 1974, Millicent and ] of New York, purchased the mansion. Being one of the largest of Newport's mansions, the Careys were faced with large costs for upkeep. The main house and gatehouse were leased to ], which renamed it the Carey Mansion. The former stables were also leased as a dormitory for Salve Regina, which renamed it "Seaview". The mansion's Drawing Room, used by the university for performances and practice, was renamed Cecilia Hall, for the patron saint of music (]). During the 1980s Seaview Terrace housed the American syndicate of the ].


On August 31, 2009, Salve Regina University terminated the lease with the Carey family. The Careys' daughter, Denise Anne Carey, an architect from New York, currently lives there.
As it is one of the largest of Newport's mansions, the Careys are faced with large costs for upkeep. Because of this, the main house and gatehouse were leased to ], which renamed it the Carey Mansion. The former stables were also leased as a dormitory for Salve Regina, which renamed it ''Seaview''. The mansion's Music Room, used by the university for performances and practice, was renamed Cecilia Hall, for the patron saint of music (]). The Ballroom is one of the best-preserved rooms in the mansion because it never housed students and was seldom used by the Bradleys.


==Fire==
Salve Regina's lease expired on August 31, 2009. Since then the Careys have begun extensive renovations including repairs to the roof, chimneys, facades and interiors such as the Solarium, Great Hall and Ballroom. Their daughter, Denise Carey, an architect from New York, currently resides there with her fiance Christopher Bettencourt, a builder from Massachusetts. Together, they oversee the restoration of the mansion.
On February 28, 2024 a fire destroyed parts of Carey Mansion. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newportri.com/story/news/crime/2024/02/28/seaview-terrance-fire-set-by-newport-man-police-alledge/72772474007/ | title=Newport man charged with setting mansion fire, carjacking Salve Regina student }}</ref>

The ] network featured the mansion in the first season, second episode of its paranormal reality show ] on March 6, 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.syfy.com/stranded/article/location_facts/page/3|title=Seaview Terrace on Stranded|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419060104/http://www.syfy.com/stranded/article/location_facts/page/3|archivedate=2013-04-19}}</ref> Seaview Terrace was featured on ]'s '']'', on October 31, 2020.

Seaview Terrace is privately owned and is not open for tours or tourist visits.


==Features== ==Features==
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===Stained glass=== ===Stained glass===
"The Flagellation" (circa 1544-47) was an early-Renaissance stained-glass window designed for ]. 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.<ref></ref> The window was bought by ] for the house when it was located on DuPont Circle, and may have once been owned by ].<ref></ref> ''The Flagellation'' (circa 1544–47) was an early-Renaissance stained-glass window designed for ]. 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.<ref></ref> The window was bought by ] for the house when it was located on Dupont Circle, and may have once been owned by ].<ref></ref>


===Estey organ=== ===Estey organ===
Carey Mansion's pipe organ, Opus 2140, was made by ] of Estey Organ Company, ]. 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.<ref></ref> Carey Mansion's pipe organ, Opus 2140, was made by ] of Estey Organ Company, ]. 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.<ref></ref>


===No fences=== ===Hedge===
Carey Mansion has never throughout its history had any sort of fencing or wall surrounding the property. There are two main gateposts, but around 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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} 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.


==Notes== ==References==
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Seaview Terrace
Carey Mansion
View from the southeast
Former namesBurnham-by-the-Sea
Stoneleigh-Burnham School
General information
Architectural styleChâteauesque
LocationNewport, Rhode Island
AddressRuggles & Wetmore Avenues
Coordinates41°28′03″N 71°18′13″W / 41.467603°N 71.30363°W / 41.467603; -71.30363 (Site of Carey Mansion Newport, Rhode Island)
Construction started1923 (1923)
Completed1925
ClientEdson Bradley
OwnerPrivately owned
Design and construction
Architect(s)Howard Greenley

Seaview Terrace, also known as the Carey Mansion, is a privately owned mansion located in Newport, Rhode Island. It was designed in the Châteauesque style based on the French chateaux of the 16th century, 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.

History

From the 1850s to the early 20th century, fashionable wealthy families built elaborate mansions in Newport to be used for entertaining during the summer season.

Seaview Terrace

Seaview Terrace and hedge.

In 1907, whiskey millionaire Edson Bradley built a French-Gothic mansion on the south side of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. It covered more than half a city block, and included a Gothic chapel with seating for 150, a large ballroom, an art gallery, and a 500-seat theatre—90 feet by 120 feet, and several stories tall, completed in 1911—known as Aladdin's Palace.

In 1923, Bradley began disassembling his Washington, D.C. mansion and relocating it to a Newport property at Ruggles and Wetmore avenues. "Sea View", the 1885 Elizabethan-Revival mansion already on the site, was incorporated into the design, and lent its name to the new chateau. Work on the exterior continued for two years, and required the use of many railroad cars and trucks. Rooms that had been imported intact from France and installed in Washington, D.C. twenty years earlier were moved again and reassembled in Newport, and the new building was constructed around them. When the interiors were completed in 1925, there were 17 rooms on the first floor, 25 on the second, and 12 on the third. It is believed to have been one of the largest buildings to be moved in this manner.

Seaview Terrace cost over $2,000,000 to build. The main house featured turrets, stained-glass windows, high arching doorways and, in keeping with its seaside location, shell motifs. The American League of Architects awarded Bradley's architect, Howard Greenley, a 1928 medal for the chateau.

Bradley's wife, Julia Williams Bradley, died in August 1929, and her funeral was held in the house's chapel. Edson Bradley spent five more summers at the mansion before his death in 1935.

The Bradleys' daughter, Julie Bradley Shipman, took over the estate and lived there until 1941. Her husband, the Right Reverend Herbert Shipman, Episcopal Bishop of New York, died in 1930. She vacated the house after a dispute with the City over non-payment of three years' back taxes. During World War II, the house was used by the U.S. Army as officers' quarters. In 1949 the property was sold for only $8,000.

Private schools

In 1950, the property became an exclusive all-girl summer boarding school, and was renamed "Burnham-by-the-Sea". The house was owned and the summer school run by Mr. and Mrs. George Waldo Emerson. During the academic year, Mrs. Emerson was a headmistress for the Mary Burnham School for Girls in Northampton, Massachusetts.

In 1968, the Mary Burnham School merged with the Stoneleigh Prospect Hill School to become the Stoneleigh-Burnham School, but the summer school continued to be run by the Emersons until they sold Seaview Terrace. During the regular school year, the school operated as Newport School for Girls. In 1971 and 1972, Seaview Terrace also was home for The New School, grades 2 through 8. Headmaster for the New School was Fr. Toller Cranston.

Filming

From 1966 to 1971, the Gothic horror soap opera Dark Shadows used Burnham-by-the-Sea as the exterior set for the fictional Collinwood Mansion, which in turn inspired the depiction of the Kingston Mansion in the "What the Hex Is Going On?" episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.

During the summer of 1973 the movie The Great Gatsby was filmed next door. All the children at the school, who had a 9 pm curfew, spent the evenings listening to the filming of the cars driving up and down the old Oelrichs property, Rosecliff.

Carey Mansion

In 1974, Millicent and Martin T. Carey of New York, purchased the mansion. Being one of the largest of Newport's mansions, the Careys were faced with large costs for upkeep. The main house and gatehouse were leased to Salve Regina University, which renamed it the Carey Mansion. The former stables were also leased as a dormitory for Salve Regina, which renamed it "Seaview". The mansion's Drawing Room, used by the university for performances and practice, was renamed Cecilia Hall, for the patron saint of music (Saint Cecilia). During the 1980s Seaview Terrace housed the American syndicate of the America's Cup.

On August 31, 2009, Salve Regina University terminated the lease with the Carey family. The Careys' daughter, Denise Anne Carey, an architect from New York, currently lives there.

Fire

On February 28, 2024 a fire destroyed parts of Carey Mansion.

The Syfy network featured the mansion in the first season, second episode of its paranormal reality show Stranded on March 6, 2013. Seaview Terrace was featured on Travel Channel's Ghost Nation, on October 31, 2020.

Seaview Terrace is privately owned and is not open for tours or tourist visits.

Features

Whispering gallery

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.

Stained glass

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.

Estey organ

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.

Hedge

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.

References

  1. "Here's a Brand New Use for Wealth—Build a Theatre Right in Your Home!" The Sunday Morning Star (Wilmington, Delaware), 12 November 1911, p. 9.
  2. Vestiges of "Sea View", the 1885 James P. Kernochan mansion originally on the site, can be seen in the chateau's north wing.
  3. "Newport man charged with setting mansion fire, carjacking Salve Regina student".
  4. "Seaview Terrace on Stranded". Archived from the original on 2013-04-19.
  5. The Flagellation
  6. The Flagellation
  7. Estey Pipe Organs Opus List

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