Charles Salagnad made this drawing in 1872,during a phase of renovations at the now-distinguished Newport mansion, Château-sur-Mer. The house was built two decades earlier for the wealthy China trader William Shepard Wetmore (1801-1862). Wetmore’s newly married son, or George Peabody Wetmore,commissioned one of Gilded Age society’s preferred architects, Richard Morris Hunt, and to transform his late...
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