Isaac Bell House
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 | Isaac Bell House |
| Designer | McKim, Mead, and White |
| Location | Newport, Rhode Island, USA |
| Date | 1881 to 1883 |
| Building Type | large house |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | residential |
| Architectural Style | Shingle Style |
| Street Address | 424 Bellevue Ave |
| Notes | -- |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Isaac_Bell_House.html |
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I visited and toured this house in the fall of 2002. It was in the process, but well on its way, of being restored. There was little or no furniture at the time, but the house itself was quite impressive. No interior photography allowed.
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"Overall, the Bell house represents the creative interplay of the talents of the three partners in the early 1880s. None appears to have dominated the commission. The elusive historical features of the design, while seen in a positive light many years later, proved troublesome at the same time, for Americans of the 1880s wanted a specificity of association not present in a modernized Colonial style."
— Richard Guy Wilson. McKim, Mead & White Architects. New York: Rizzoli, 1983. p82.
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Arnold Lewis. American Country Houses of the Gilded Age. New York: Dover Publications, 1982. ISBN 0-486-24301-X. LC 81-17384. NA7610.A58 1982. exterior photo from the garden, plate 7.
Leland M. Roth. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1979. ISBN 0-06-430086-2. NA705.R67 1979. discussion, p159. exterior photo, plan drawing, p158. — Available at Amazon.com
Leland M. Roth. McKim, Mead & White Architects. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1983. ISBN 0-06-438491-8. LC 83-47559. NA 737.M4R65 1983. exterior photo from the garden, f66, p72.
Richard Guy Wilson. McKim, Mead and White, Architects. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. NA737.M4W54. ISBN 0-8478-0491-7. LC 83-4534. site context plan drawing, f87, p78.
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