Some call The Elms at 367 Bellevue Avenue in Newport a summer cottage, facetiously, for this is a large mansion. Completed in 1901 after construction from 1899 to 1901 at a cost of approximately 1.5 million dollars, it was designed by Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938) for coal baron Edward Julius Berwind (1848–1936). Trumbauer took explicit inspiration from the 18th-century Château d'Asnières in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.
The gardens and landscape were created by C. H. Miller and E. W. Bowditch, who worked closely with Trumbauer. Like most Newport houses of the Gilded Age, The Elms was built with non-combustible materials: a structural steel frame, interior partitions of plaster over terra cotta blocks set on reinforced concrete floor slabs, and exterior walls of brick masonry clad in limestone. The Preservation Society of Newport County purchased The Elms in 1962 and opened the house to the public; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996.
Notice the steel-frame massing, the limestone cladding, and the surrounding gardens and landscape close beside you.