Rosecliff Mansion
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Rosecliff Mansion is a museum in Rhode Island, at a recorded elevation of 17 m. Yorker Hill stands 98 m to the west-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Marble House, a museum 0.2 miles away. Paradise Ave and Other Roads passes 2.6 miles off.
The story
Rosecliff is a Gilded Age mansion of Newport, Rhode Island, now open to the public as a historic house museum. The house has also been known as the Hermann Oelrichs House or the J. Edgar Monroe House. It was built 1898–1902 by Theresa Fair Oelrichs, a silver heiress from Nevada, whose father James Graham Fair was one of the four partners in the Comstock Lode. She was the wife of Hermann Oelrichs, American agent for Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship line. She and her husband, together with her sister, Virginia Fair, bought the land in 1891 from the estate of George Bancroft and commissioned the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White to design a summer home suitable for entertaining on a grand scale. With little opportunity to channel her considerable energy elsewhere, she "threw herself into the social scene with tremendous gusto, becoming, with Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish and Mrs. O.H.P. Belmont (of nearby Belcourt), one of the three great hostesses of Newport." The principal architect, Stanford White, modeled the mansion after the Grand Trianon of Versailles, but smaller and reduced to a basic "H" shape, while keeping Mansart's scheme of a glazed arcade of arched windows and paired Ionic pilasters, which increase to columns across the central loggia. White's Rosecliff adds to the Grand Trianon a second storey with a balustraded roofline that conceals the set-back third storey, containing twenty small servants' rooms and the pressing room for the laundry.
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Dates from 1900s.
Wikidata Q2166814, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 17 m
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 2.6 mi off the Paradise Ave and Other Roads
- 1.8 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 12.8 mi off the Ministerial Road
- 13.0 mi off the Route 114 and High Street
Overlooks nearby
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 20 mi
- Prospect Terrace Viewpoint · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Marble House: 0.2 mi
- National Museum of American Illustration: 0.3 mi
- Chateau-sur-Mer Mansion: 0.4 mi
- The Breakers: 0.5 mi
- Belcourt of Newport: 0.6 mi
- Rovensky Park: 0.4 mi
- Murphy Field: 0.7 mi
- Spencer Park: 0.9 mi
- Ballard Park: 1.0 mi
- King Park: 1.1 mi
- Oliver Perry Monument: 1.8 mi
- Fort Adams: 2.0 mi
- USS Bennington Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Archibald Gracie Lawence memorial stone: 2.4 mi
- EgyptAir Flight 990 Memorial: 2.8 mi
- Fort Wetherill: 2.9 mi
- Castle Hill: 2.9 mi
- Bliss Hill: 3.0 mi
- Miantonomi Hill: 3.2 mi
- Beacon Hill: 3.3 mi
- Racquet Road Wildlife Refuge: 3.4 mi
- Marsh Meadows Wildlife Preserve: 4.7 mi
- Wilbour Woods: 6.9 mi
- John C. Whitehead Preserve: 7.1 mi
- High Hill Point: 7.3 mi
- Belmont Beach: 0.2 mi
- Rejects Beach: 0.7 mi
- Bailey Beach: 0.8 mi
- Gooseberry Beach: 1.0 mi
- Hazard Beach: 1.1 mi
- Breakers Stable & Carriage House: 0.4 mi
- Rough Point Mansion: 0.7 mi
- Newport Mansions Preservation Society: 0.7 mi
- Newport Cliff Walk – Forty Steps: 0.8 mi
- International Tennis Hall of Fame: 1.2 mi
- Rochambeau Statue and Monument: 1.2 mi
- Matthew Perry Monument: 1.4 mi
- Channing Truro Statue: 1.5 mi
- Grafitti Tunnel: 9.4 mi
- Rhody the Ram: 11.5 mi
- The Blue Garden: 1.6 mi
- Herb Garden: 6.2 mi
- Burchard Triangle: 6.8 mi
- Ecological Oasis: 7.4 mi
- Heber W. Youngken Medicinal Garden: 11.7 mi
- Marys Seat: 1.4 mi
- The Bluff: 2.2 mi
- Rams Head: 3.0 mi
- Lion Head: 4.5 mi
- Ferry Cliff: 12.8 mi
- Big Beach: 17.4 mi
- Little Beach: 17.7 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 19.7 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 19.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 19.8 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 19.9 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 21.0 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 21.2 mi
- Beavertail Light: 5.0 mi
- 1755 Lighthouse Foundation: 5.0 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 22.7 mi
- Plum Point Spring: 7.5 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 14.9 mi
- Factory Pond: 16.1 mi
- The Falls: 8.0 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 15.3 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 15.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.8 miles of Rosecliff Mansion. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorker Hill | WNW 289° | 98 m | 12.8 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | WNW 283° | 97 m | 13.1 mi |
| Pocasset Hill | NNE 24° | 95 m | 14.2 mi |
| Sherman Hill | WNW 284° | 88 m | 11.2 mi |
| Slate Hill | NNE 21° | 87 m | 5.6 mi |
| Tefft Hill | W 270° | 78 m | 12.1 mi |
| Congdon Hill | WNW 294° | 75 m | 10.4 mi |
| Exeter Hill | WNW 301° | 75 m | 14.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:21 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:41 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:08 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 15:35 | 16:19 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 39 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 71 | 71 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newport Rose, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/371945269
Day trips start here
- Newport · 2 mi
- Brenton Point State Park · 3 mi
- Middletown · 4 mi
- Jamestown · 5 mi
- Dutch Island · 6 mi
- Little Compton · 8 mi
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