Dean George Berkeley House

  • Also Known As: Whitehall
  • Also Known As: Bishop George Berkeley House

  • Address: 311 Berkeley Ave
  • Vicinity: N of Green End Ave
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1729/02/00 Bishop George Berkeley Home The Berkeley's buy 96 cleared acres and a 17C farmhouse, naming it Whitehall in loyal remembrance of the palace of the English Kings. The Irish Delft tiles in the green room fireplace are thought to have been brought by the Berkeley's from home.
1729/06/12 Becoming pregnant during the voyage to America, George's wife Anne gives birth to their first child, Henry, at Whitehall.
1729/07/00 The Berkeleys enlarge their home with a new front section, designed in the current English taste. The door case is copied from Inigo Jones' drawings of Palladian details, published in London in 1727.
1730/00/00 Abraham Redwood Guest From 1729-31 George Berkeley's Whitehall is a meeting place for the intellectual minds of New England. Abraham Redwood regularly participates these philosophical discussion with other prominent men of Newport.
1731/09/09 Bishop George Berkeley Home The Berkeley family return to England by sail to Boston, leaving Whitehall Farm and eight boxes of books to the Seminary at Yale. Rental income from the farm is to provide scholarships for divinity students.
1732/00/00 Bishop George Berkeley Author Written by George Berkeley at Whitehall, "Alciphron, or The Minute Philosopher in Seven Dialogues" is published by J Tonson, The Strand, London.
1874/00/00 Charles Follen McKim Education Charles McKim's photo of Whitehall is published. He hang a copy over his desk. For several summers during the 1870s, McKim rented a house on Washington St in Newport, sketching buildings, and hired an artist to photograph 60 colonial structures.
1897/00/00 Used as a barn and in danger of complete collapse, three Newport women raise funds to obtain a lease on the building with half an acre from Yale, and carry out a restoration of Whitehall.
1899/06/00 With one of the earliest preservation undertakings in Rhode Island completed, Whitehall is opened to the public for in the summer of 1899.
1936/06/00 Norman M Isham Architect With funds from the RI Tercentenary Commission, a second restoration is begun on the front two rooms of Whitehsll, which is carefully carried out and documented by Norman Isham, a Rhode Island architect.

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Particulars for Dean George Berkeley House:
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Education
Architectural Style Georgian Architecture
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Level of Significance National
Architectural Style Palladian
Criteria Person
Area of Significance Philosophy
Owner Private
Area of Significance Religion
Historic Use Religious Property
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 28th April 1970

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Whitehall
Registry Address: Berkeley Ave.
Registry Number: 70000016
Resource Type: Building
Owner: Private
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: Georgian
Area in Acres: 6
Contributing Buildings: 1
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Landscape architecture, Education, Philosophy, Religion
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering, Person
Criteria Consideration: Religious property
Period of Significance: 1700-1749, 1750-1799
Significant Year: 1729
Associated People: Berkeley,George
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Recreation and Culture
Current Sub-Function: Museum

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