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Bellevue Avenue's first stone mansion was built in the Victorian Gothic style in 1852 for William S. Wetmore, a tycoon involved in the China trade. It was enlarged in the 1870s by Richard Morris Hunt. The Gold Room, by Leon Marcotte, and the Renaissance Revival-style dining room and library, by the …
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What is old can still be new, and this is true of Newport today as it was when the first settlers arrived in the harbor, a popular place of trade. Newport's rich cultural diversity comes from these early days of trade from the West Indies with settlers bringing unusual items like pineapples, which …