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
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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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. |
Particulars for Dean George Berkeley House: | |
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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 |
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