apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time


Posts tagged “Newport”

The Grand Dining Rooms of the Newport Mansions
Newport, Rhode Island

Entertaining at Newport’s turn-of-the-century seaside “cottages” (read: “humongous mansions”) was clearly not a casual affair. But after last year’s austere holiday party season, we must...

Spend the Night at the Rose Island Lighthouse Museum
Rhode Island

As kids we loved the book From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg, about an 11-year old girl who runs away from home to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and w...

Rosecliff Mansion: Gilded Age Style
Rhode Island

Over the weekend we stopped by the Newport Flower Show at the breathtaking turn-of-the-century Rosecliff Mansion, which, like many of the historic Newport mansions, has been carefully preserved and ...