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Memories abound at Clouds Hill as it celebrates its 150th anniversary
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September 19, 2022.
Charles Burns takes us back in time to the second half of the 19th century when landmark homes, along the shoreline of Narragansett Bay, served as sum...
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1015 Park — A History of One of Park Avenue’s Most Distinct Private Residences
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November 9, 2021.
A personal history of the red brick house on the corner of Park and 85th, completed for its family in 1915, who lived there for the next 50 years...
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The Life and Times of Josephine Hartford, Part II
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January 12, 2021.
The second and final installment on the life of Josephine Hartford, one of the richest American heiresses of the 20th century, by Charles Burns...
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The life and times of Josephine Hartford, Part I
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January 8, 2021.
The Life and Times of 20th century American Josephine Hartford, heiress to the enormous A&P supermarkets fortune, by Charlie Burns...
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THE AGE OF THE DEBUTANTE; Newport in the 1930s, Part II
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October 6, 2020.
Part II of Charles Burns' history of the Newport debutantes growing up and marrying princes, counts and assorted society heirs and playboys...
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THE AGE OF THE DEBUTANTE; Newport in the 1930s, Part I
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September 29, 2020.
Newport historian Charles Burns on the Age of the Debutante in the exuberant years after the Gilded Age when Newport celebrated its youths’ coming o...
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Guardian Spirit: Newport Legacy of Doris Duke
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January 22, 2020.
A curator and art historian’s visit to the fabled heiress’ Newport, Rhode Island mansion, every inch defining its possessor’s taste and sensibil...
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S. Russell Groves
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May 3, 2013.
S. Russell Groves trained as an architect and has worked for very big names including Richard Meier and Peter Marino. He says it was Peter Marino who...
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