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"Featuring more than 190 vintage views of cottages built from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, Lost Newport highlights 59 summer houses, now lost, in an evocative guide that gives depth to any Newport experience." --

The nineteenth century was an incredibly vibrant period in Newport, Rhode Island's, rich architectural history. Opulent private houses{u2015}or summer 2cottages3 as they were known{u2015}populated the seaside resort half a century before the rise of the European Revival behemoths of the late 1880s and 1890s. The luxury and splendor of many of these earlier homes often rivaled the sumptuousness of the later 2Gilded Age3 mansions. In the decades since...

"In 1789, Jedidiah Morse described Newport and its environs as the "Eden of America" in the First Geography of the United States. In the nineteenth century, landscape architects, such as Frederick Law Olmsted, created dramatic gardens by the sea for his wealthy clients, and artists from John Frederick Kensett to Henry James and Thornton Wilder celebrated the city as a verdant paradise in painting, poetry, and prose. America's Eden: Newport Landscapes...