Number 76 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, the John N. A. Griswold House, is your next stop. The house was built in 1864 for John Noble Alsop Griswold, an Old China Trade merchant and member of the Griswold Family, and was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the American Stick style, one of the earliest buildings in that style and one of Hunt's first works in Newport. Today it is one of the galleries of the Newport Art Museum and a project of Save America's Treasures; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2000.
Look closely at the 2+1/2-story wood-frame structure set on a granite foundation, sitting on a parcel landscaped in the early 19th century to a design by the Olmsted Brothers. Notice the complex roofline, the main mansarded section pierced by numerous gable and dormer sections, and the roof's bands of polychrome slate. Chimneys rise with concrete caps and decorative panels; balconies are sheltered by deep eaves and gable ends bear applied Stick-style woodwork.
An expansive veranda wraps around the house, with the slate, the eaves, and the broad veranda spread before you.