The Visiting List

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 "...

Once again, we travel to Newport, this time to "Sherwood." Pembroke "Pem" Jones and Sadie Wharton Green Jones purchased what was to become "Sherwood" in January 1906, with plans to occupy the house for the 1907 season. Jones was Vice President of the Carlonia Shipbuilding Corporation. He was a member of the Union Club, The Brook, City Midday Club, New York Yacht Club, and the Larchmont Yacht Club. His wife was a member of the Colony Club and daughter of Congressman Wharton Jackson Green. While born in North Carolina, she graduated from Notre Dame in Baltimore and was a part of the Washington social scene while her father was a Congressman. The Pembroke Jones maintained a house at 5 East 61st Street in New York, and previous to that at 550 Park Avenue. Private Yacht Signal of Pembroke Jones "Sherwood" was originally built in 1870 and opened in 1871. It was built as a stick style cottage by New York leather merchant Loring Andrews and was designed ...

With another trip beyond the boundaries of the great cities, it's time to move to the seashore, something which also occurred seasonally among certain classes, to escape the noise, heat, and smell of American cities. One of those popular destinations was Newport. Belmead, the Newport cottage of George Slesman Scott and Augusta Champion Isham Scott of 15 Washington Square, New York, was built on land purchased in November 1892 from the estate of George A. Richmond. When purchased, Scott had hopes of July 1894 occupancy. Scott was a former Vice-President and Director of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, Director of the Union Pacific Railway Company and the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Company, and President of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company. He was a member of the Union Club, Metropolitan Club, New York Yacht Club, Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Tuxedo Club, American Yacht Club, and the Sons of the American Revolution. Designs for the cottage were prepared by ...