Hopedene - Newport
We return to Newport and a cottage originally designed by Peabody & Stearns of Boston in May 1897. "Hopedene" sits near the northern end of Cliff Walk overlooking Rhode Island Sound. Elizabeth Hope Gammell Slater of Washington inherited the land on which "Hopedene" was built from her grandfather Robert Hale Ives in 1896. By May 1898 Peabody & Stearns had created plans for a villa which was inspired residences which she had seen in Europe. But the cottage alone did not alter the Newport landscape. Beginning in July 1899 Slater had a new road laid out (todays Gammell Road originally known as Ocean Lawn Road) in continuation of Cliff Avenue, leading to her new residence and connecting with a road laid out in 1898 east from Annadale Road. This new road was built of macadam of a very substantial manner and made it a pleasant connection between Annandale Road and Bath Road (todays Memorial Boulevard). Garden Side View of "Hopedene" Garden View of "