Description Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer playground of the Gilded Age for the Astors, Belmonts and Vanderbilts.
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America\'s elite delighted in referring to these grand retreats as "summer cottages," where they would play tennis and polo and sail their yachts along the shores of the Ocean State.
They built lavish villas designed by the best Beaux Arts-style architects of the time, including Richard Morris Hunt, Charles McKim and Robert Swain Peabody.
Description Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer playground of the Gilded Age for the Astors, Belmonts and Vanderbilts