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beach and saltwater. All new and all thoroughly exciting. The trip to the beach was a first, enough to create a childhood memory. But before the ride back to our hosts’ house after the beach, we were taken on a tour of another part of Newport—a place referred to as “Bellevue Avenue.” For there was a world so far from my provincial imagination, something even more impressive than a movie because it was real. Houses, mammoth mansions, palaces…all light years away from anything I’d ever seen. The Breakers and Marble House are clearly etched in my memory although that etching may have 20 QUEST
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occurred years later. I was in my mid-twenties the second time I went up to Newport. I was newly married and that following summer we drove up from the City to stay with a friend who was in our wedding. Our friend was running Lilly Pulitzer’s shop in the center of Newport. Lilly had rented an apartment for her over a large private garage—obviously built to accommodate several cars, including limousines—on the grounds of Clarendon Court that later became well known when it was owned by Sonny and Claus von Bulow. The house had been designed and built in by Horace
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Trumbauer1903 at the height of the so-called Gilded Age for Edward C. Knight, an heir to a railroad fortune (sleeping cars). He named it Claradon Court after his wife Clara. When Clara died, Mr. Knight sold the house to May Cadwell Hayward. Known as Maysie, whose husband Col. Hayward was the father of producer agent Leland Hayward, Mrs. Hayward had previously owned the house on the corner of 52nd Street and Fifth Avenue that now houses Cartier. Her first husband, Morton Plant, had built it and famously parted with it for a pearl necklace for Maysie from Cartier said to
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be worth $1 million. After Col. Hayward died, Maysie Hayward married a New York City banker John Rovensky who outlived her and inherited the property. He left it to his daughter who later sold to the von Bulows. We visited our friend in Newport several times that summer. There were a lot of people our age around. Newport had a very popular harbor for yachts and sailboats, as well as several pubs harborside. There was also Cliffwalk, a public paved path that meandered along the ocean’s rocky edge at the foot of the “cottage” lawns that stretched down to the oceanfront. By
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