Hamilton Rice Home in Newport, Rhode Island, exterior view showing section..., between 1917 and 1927 Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Hamilton Rice Home in Newport, Rhode Island, exterior view showing section..., between 1917 and 1927 Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston.

2-914-753 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Hamilton Rice Home in Newport, Rhode Island, exterior view showing section of house facade, between 1917 and 1927. The Miramar neoclassical mansion was designed by Horace Trumbauer for heiress and philanthropist Eleanor Elkins Widener and her husband George Widener. After George died aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912 Eleanor married again, and Miramar was used as a summer residence by her and her second husband, geographer and explorer Alexander H. Rice Jr.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Frances Benjamin Johnston, attributed to: American: Photographer, photojournalist
People Related
  1. Alexander Hamilton Rice: American: physician, geographer, geologist and explorer
  2. Horace Trumbauer: American: Architect
  3. Eleanor Elkins Widener: American: heiress, socialite, philanthropist, and adventuress

Medium
  1. Photograph

Picture Type
  1. Photographic. prints 1910-1930. gmgpc

Geographic Hierarchy

World North and Central America United States Rhode Island Newport Rhode Island Newport

  1. 41 29 00 N , 071 18 00 W

Category Hierarchy

Locations & Buildings Palaces & Stately Homes

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Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 1159x1536
File Size : 1,739kb


Aliases

  1. 92519540
  1. 1010011749
  1. 2-914-753
  1. 2914753
  1. 92519540

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