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These codes require him to govern his behavior and control his actions. He doesn't drink, really, except once with the "Amistad" cast in Newport and once on his twenty-first birthday...
...Townsend-Goddard shop in Newport, Rhode Island, pioneers the blockfront style of furniture design...
Richard Morris Hunt designs the Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island...
...superrich built themselves palaces on New York City's Fifth and Park avenues, which were much satirized. But the red-hot site of Gilded Age extravagance was Newport, Rhode Island, where the very rich congregated in the summer. Here, in what they called with false modesty their "cottages," they engaged in rituals of consumption and display that were so extreme, competitive and self-referential that they eclipsed anything done in private American building before or since. Newport confirms the piercing insight of Henry Adams, lamenting the crassness of his time: "The American wasted more money more recklessly than anyone ever...
...America, the rich have always wondered too. Wealth on the scale of the 1880s in the U.S. was still uncharted territory. Its signs could get crossed. So the plutocrat needed an architect to create a seamless etiquette of shared ostentation, with variants, and that was what Hunt did with Newport...