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A4 Guide: The Art of Architecture

A4 Guide: The Art of Architecture

People often think of architects as “building” the structures they design, but the reality is far more complicated and interesting. Even a small house would be difficult for a single person to create solely on his own. Architecture is in fact a collaborative process...

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A4 Spotlight: Beachmound Renovation

A4 Spotlight: Beachmound Renovation

Newport, Rhode Island is famous for its grand mansions. There were large houses built during the Colonial Era and the time between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, but it was during the Gilded Age which lasted from 1865 to 1915 that the largest number and...

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Newport Spotlight: Rose Island Lighthouse

Newport Spotlight: Rose Island Lighthouse

Rose Island Aerial - Image by PJ Dougherty   There is one kind of building type that is only found along the coastlines of the world: the lighthouse. From the earliest days when the great lighthouse at Alexandria was considered one of the great wonders of the...

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A4 Spotlight: Ochre Court

A4 Spotlight: Ochre Court

Salve Regina University is celebrating its 75th Anniversary in 2022. Although plans by the Sisters of Mercy were set in place many years before, in 1947 the nuns received the gift of Ochre Court from the Goelet family. The building was originally designed by Richard...

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Newport Spotlight: Redwood Library

Newport Spotlight: Redwood Library

Among the many firsts that Newport, Rhode Island is famous for and proud of is the Redwood Library, the oldest continuously operating purpose-built library in America. Through it's construction and expansion over time, the building has been an icon of both the history...

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A4 Perspective: The Changing Waterfront

A4 Perspective: The Changing Waterfront

In the Colonial Era, Newport’s waterfront served as the community’s front door and its lifeblood. There was no other way to reach Newport than by the Long Wharf that projected out into the Narragansett Bay, and which served as the entry point not just for arrivals to...

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A4 Perspective: Air Conditioning

A4 Perspective: Air Conditioning

Around the world, the signs of global warming are becoming unmistakable. An arctic glacier is hanging on by the barest of margins. One third of Pakistan was flooded in the recent monsoons, and one heat wave after another has created a record amount of wildfires in the...

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Newport Spotlight: 141 Pelham

Newport Spotlight: 141 Pelham

Parkgate, located at 141 Pelham Street, was designed by Newport architect George Champlin Mason Sr. Sitting at the corner of Pelham and Bellevue, the site has a rich historical past. In 1844, the site was home to The Atlantic Hotel. During the Civil War, between 1861...

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Newport Spotlight: Chepstow Mansion

Newport Spotlight: Chepstow Mansion

In 1860 George Champlin Mason designed an Italianate villa in Newport, RI for Edmund Henry Schermerhorn, who was an American and part of the old New York families of Dutch descent. Today that house is known as Chepstow. It is among a series of houses designed by Mason...

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