Aside from its beauty and architectural importance, Gray Craig offers unusual privacy and seclusion while still only five minutes from Newport's active waterfront.
The property, bordered by the 450-acre Norman Bird Sanctuary is situated in Paradise Valley, for years a favored subject for American landscape artists. The house offers breathtaking views across Nelson pond and the Atlantic Ocean. The property is a picturesque combination of ponds, streams, marshes, rocky ledges, woodland and sweeping lawn. Majestic trees, an apple orchard, formal hedgerows and a hidden boxwood maze complement the dramatic scenery. The original property, Gray Crag, was owned by O.H.P.Belmont who commissioned Whitney Warren to design it as an exotic game menagerie in the late 1800's.
In the 1920's the van Beuren family engaged New York architect, H.T.Lindeburg to design the present Gray Craig where the family lived for 60 years. In 1989 the property was scaled back from 77 acres to 25 to accommodate a family with four children. Harrie Lindeburg's well-known trademarks still endure; the flying staircase (considered his best), the paneled library with its barrel-vaulted ceiling and the entry to the port-cochere bracketed by his signature lead peacocks. Lindeburg clearly felt that the house and the landscape should 'marry'. His subtlety lies in the way you are enticed into an embracing courtyard only to walk out to a spectacular and dramatic vista as you proceed through the house. The grandeur of the house is recorded in over 300 photographs in the Library of Congress in Washington.
Aside from its beauty and architectural importance, Gray Craig offers unusual privacy and seclusion while still only five minutes from Newport's active waterfront. Excellent private day and boarding schools are even closer.
The property, bordered by the 450-acre Norman Bird Sanctuary is situated in Paradise Valley, for years a favored subject for American landscape artists. The house offers breathtaking views across Nelson pond and the Atlantic Ocean. The property is a picturesque combination of ponds, streams, marshes, rocky ledges, woodland and sweeping lawn. Majestic trees, an apple orchard, formal hedgerows and a hidden boxwood maze complement the dramatic scenery. The original property, Gray Crag, was owned by O.H.P.Belmont who commissioned Whitney Warren to design it as an exotic game menagerie in the late 1800's.
In the 1920's the van Beuren family engaged New York architect, H.T.Lindeburg to design the present Gray Craig where the family lived for 60 years. In 1989 the property was scaled back from 77 acres to 25 to accommodate a family with four children. Harrie Lindeburg's well-known trademarks still endure; the flying staircase (considered his best), the paneled library with its barrel-vaulted ceiling and the entry to the port-cochere bracketed by his signature lead peacocks. Lindeburg clearly felt that the house and the landscape should 'marry'. His subtlety lies in the way you are enticed into an embracing courtyard only to walk out to a spectacular and dramatic vista as you proceed through the house. The grandeur of the house is recorded in over 300 photographs in the Library of Congress in Washington.
Aside from its beauty and architectural importance, Gray Craig offers unusual privacy and seclusion while still only five minutes from Newport's active waterfront. Excellent private day and boarding schools are even closer.
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