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By Jackie Craven, About.com Guide to Architecture

Some Vacation Home!

Friday July 10, 2009
Astors' Beechwood I'd be delighted to have a tiny cottage for my vacation home, but during the Gilded Age, people like the Astors and the Vanderbilts built lavish mansions in trendy Newport, Rhode Island. Today you can tour their homes and even spend the night in a few. Explore the mansions of Newport, Rhode Island >

Beechwood Mansion, photo © John W. Corbett

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