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| Readers may remember that last year about this time, we published a photographic essay Sam Bolton, Nick Mele and Alex Kendall on old Newport, Rhode Island today (NYSD 10.26.12). They gave us a charmingly inside view of this great summertime mecca where American society of the Gilded Age played out its fate. The quintessential American summer resort or the Northeast is a contemporary year-round home to many including many descendents of the families of a century ago. Although everything has changed in our American civilization, since the dawning of the industrial, communications and transportation revolutions — Newport, along with its more newly arrived denizens — remains a fascinating and steadfast architectural tribute. Today we present Bolton and Mele’s ongoing private photographic tour of this historic community. The memories and their nostalgia are deep-rooted. The opening shot — of Richard Morris Hunt’s masterpiece The Breakers, created for Cornelius Vanderbilt II in 1892 — is other worldly yet still unblemished, protecting its family history. It is now the city’s most visited historical stop, visited by three quarters of a million tourists a year. |
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