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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