Emerson was a headmistress for the Mary Burnham School for Girls in Northampton, Massachusetts. The house was owned and the summer school run by Mr. In 1950, the property became an exclusive all-girl summer boarding school, and was renamed "Burnham-by-the-Sea". In 1949 the property was sold for only $8,000. During World War II, the house was used by the U.S. She vacated the house after a dispute with the City over non-payment of three years' back taxes. Her husband, the Right Reverend Herbert Shipman, Episcopal Bishop of New York, died in 1930. The Bradleys' daughter, Julie Bradley Shipman, took over the estate and lived there until 1941. Edson Bradley spent five more summers at the mansion before his death in 1935. The American League of Architects awarded Bradley's architect, Howard Greenley, a 1928 medal for the chateau.īradley's wife, Julia Williams Bradley, died in August 1929, and her funeral was held in the house's chapel. The main house featured turrets, stained-glass windows, high arching doorways and, in keeping with its seaside location, shell motifs. Seaview Terrace cost over $2,000,000 to build. It is believed to have been one of the largest buildings to be moved in this manner. When the interiors were completed in 1925, there were 17 rooms on the first floor, 25 on the second, and 12 on the third. twenty years earlier were moved again and reassembled in Newport, and the new building was constructed around them. Rooms that had been imported intact from France and installed in Washington, D.C. Work on the exterior continued for two years, and required the use of many railroad cars and trucks. "Sea View", the 1885 Elizabethan-Revival mansion already on the site, was incorporated into the design, and lent its name to the new chateau. mansion and relocating it to a Newport property at Ruggles and Wetmore avenues. In 1923, Bradley began disassembling his Washington, D.C. It covered more than half a city block, and included a Gothic chapel with seating for 150, a large ballroom, an art gallery, and a 500-seat theatre-90 feet by 120 feet, and several stories tall, completed in 1911-known as Aladdin's Palace. In 1907, whiskey millionaire Edson Bradley built a French-Gothic mansion on the south side of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C. Part of the main house and some of the outbuildings were leased to Salve Regina University until recently. The television show Dark Shadows used its exterior as the fictional Collinwood Mansion. It was the last of the great "Summer Cottages" constructed and is the fifth-largest of Newport's mansions, after The Breakers, Ochre Court, Belcourt Castle, and Rough Point. It was designed in the French Renaissance Revival Châteauesque style and completed in 1925. Seaview Terrace, also known as the Carey Mansion, is a privately owned mansion located in Newport, Rhode Island.
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