The American League of Architects awarded Howard Greenley
a medal for the design of Mr. and Mrs. Edson Bradley's
sprawling French Renaissance manor house, one of the
last of Newport's immense Gilded Age summer palaces to
be built. Conceptualized in 1924 and built between 1927
and 1929, the Bradley home became known as Seaview Terrace.
A pre-existing Elizabethan residence known as Seaview
(1885) formerly owned by James Kernochan, was incorporated
into Greenley's design. In keeping with its seaside location,
the 65-room manor house features turrets, stained-glass
windows, high, arching doorways and shell motifs that
adorn the fa?ade. Rooms imported intact from France were
moved from the Bradley's home in Washington, D.C. to
Newport, and reassembled with the chateau constructed
around them.
The Bradley's daughter Mrs. Julia Bradley Fox took over the estate and lived
there until the late 1930s with her husband Rt. Rev. Herbert Shipman, protestant
Episcopal Bishop of New York and World War I Army chaplain. It has been used
as World War II Army officers' quarters, an exclusive girls' school and as an
exterior set for the cult classic television show Dark Shadows. Purchased in
1974 by the Carey family of New York and renamed Carey Mansion, it currently
serves as an academic facility and student residence. |
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