Bois Doré (Newport, Rhode Island)
{{short description|French chateau style mansion in built in 1927 in Newport, Rhode Island}}
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| address = 115 Narragansett Ave
| location_city = Newport, Rhode Island
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| floor_area = 19,000 square feet
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| architect = Charles A. Platt
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| name = Bois Doré
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| designated_nrhp_type = March 18, 1975
| partof = Ochre Point–Cliffs Historic District
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Bois Doré is a French chateau-style mansion built in 1927 in Newport, Rhode Island. It was designed by New York architect Charles A. Platt for William Fahnestock, a New York banker. It is described as one of the last great houses built for Newport,{{cite web|title=Bois Dore and the Ballrooms of Newport|url=http://a4arch.com/blog/bois-dore-and-the-ballrooms-of-newport/|access-date=October 2, 2016|archive-date=October 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011234416/http://a4arch.com/blog/bois-dore-and-the-ballrooms-of-newport/|url-status=dead}} and is a part of the Ochre Point-Cliffs Historic District.{{cite web| url = http://fortune.com/2014/03/14/a-fortune-500-fortune-funds-a-newport-hotel/| title = A Fortune 500 fortune funds a Newport hotel {{!}} Fortune}}{{cite report|type=none |url=http://www.preservation.ri.gov/pdfs_zips_downloads/national_pdfs/newport/newp_ochre-point-cliffs-hd.pdf|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Ochre Point–Cliffs Historic District|publisher=Rhode Island Preservation|access-date=2014-11-06 |author=Richard B. Harrington|date=September 18, 1974}} Includes maps and 16 photos from 1974.
Description
History
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Bois Doré was built in 1927. It was designed by New York architect Charles A. Platt for William Fahnestock, who came from a prominent New York banking family which founded Oppenheimer Holdings.
It was later owned by Cambell's Soup heiress, Elinor Winifred Dorrance Hill Ingersoll who married Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll, USN.
Later, it was owned by oil heiress Carolyn Mary Skelly, daughter of William Grove Skelly. She was once dubbed the "most robbed woman in the US" by the Boston Globe.{{cite news|title=The Heiress Out Back|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/28/garden/28dollie.html|agency=The New York Times|date=2006}} The estate is currently owned by Fairfax & Sammons Properties LLC.{{Cite web |date=2023-06-24 |title=Nesi’s Notes: June 24 |url=https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/ted-nesi/nesis-notes-june-24-2/ |access-date=2023-12-09 |website=WPRI.com |language=en-US}}
The mansion was sold in 2021 for $8.99 million.
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Category:Houses in Newport, Rhode Island
Category:Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island
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