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Marble House
Marble House
is a
Gilded Age
mansion at 596
Bellevue Avenue
in
Newport, Rhode Island
, now open to the public as a museum run by the
Preservation Society of Newport County
. It was designed by the society architect
Richard Morris Hunt
. For an American house, it was unparalleled in design and opulence when it was built. Its temple-front
portico
, which also serves as a
porte-cochère
, resembles that of the
White House
.
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