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Chateau-sur-Mer |
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The first stone mansion to go up on Newport's Bellevue Avenue, Chateau-sur-Mer was built in 1852 for William S Wetmore of New York. |
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The mansion is currently undergoing restoration, and is not open to the public. Wetmore's son, who met Richard Morris Hunt while on a tour of Europe, was responsible for bringing the American-born architect to Newport to rebuild his mansion, and later the mansions of others. (The senior Wetmore had lived in the mansion 10 years before he died, and upon his death his son took it over.) The chateau is very rich Victorian Gothic, and to modern tastes it seems luxurious, but dark and heavy. Chateau-sur-Mer has the feeling of being lived in and enjoyed—something that can't be said of some of the other mansions.
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