125. The Heiress Tour | Welcome to Newport! From Utopian Colonial Experiment to Pre-Gilded Age Hotel Hotspot

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We are dipping into a different avenue on our Heiress Tour in the next few episodes. Welcome to Newport! It’s been waiting for you. I am thrilled to begin this next Heiress arc introducing the history of this Rhode Island playground of the Gilded Age, long before the Gilded Age begins. Newport begins as a 17th century colonial experiment embracing religious freedom, and by the middle of the 1800’s is a flourishing seaside vacation village for the wealthy, coming in droves to exclusive luxury hotels for a summer escape. This is Newport from the 1500s to the 1870s – let’s set the scene for the most exclusive and expensive of Heiress playgrounds in the Gilded Age. All sources can be found at doneanddunne.com. Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/DoneDunne. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn,
0:07.2	where nothing is linear and everything is connected. Thank you for joining me today as we
0:13.6	continue our heiress tour, changing locations just a little bit. Welcome to Newport. It's been waiting for you. We have so many
0:25.4	previous heiresses weaving their way in and out of Newport Society, and we are going to cover
0:31.8	a few more erases in great detail in the coming weeks as well. It's time to pile into our time machine trolley today
0:41.3	for an introduction to Newport Road Island. This is a gilded age colony like no other. It becomes a
0:50.3	playground for the really obscenely wealthy in time, with Newport making its big-time
0:58.0	gilded age entrance in about the 1880s. But Newport does not begin that way. Newport actually
1:05.4	begins, blossoms, and then thrives as a bastion of liberal freedom with so many folks from all kinds of cultures,
1:15.1	practicing whatever kind of religion they want to, beginning in 1639.
1:21.0	This episode of Done and Done is a journey in time and space, getting to know the history and the buildup to that famous summer colony
1:29.1	of the gilded age. Today, we are going to roll from about the 1500s to about the 1870s,
1:37.0	covering quite a lot in our investigation today. Before we begin our episode, though, I do have a
1:42.9	spy glass here to give some huge thanks and praise to our most recent supporters on patreon.com slash done and done with many, many thanks, Wendy and Fan.
1:55.2	Holy cats, y'all are the best.
1:57.5	A big shout out to you as well as all of our Patreon investigators, getting ad-free and
2:03.4	early episodes, not done yet bonus episodes, and more, including our Dominic Dunn book club
2:11.0	beginning in October. Really grateful to all of y'all and you, yeah you, for joining me today for this ride into history,
2:20.1	heiresses and homes. Welcome to Newport. It's been waiting really begin as a high society playground.
2:49.5	Its development might surprise you a bit.
2:52.5	It's going to take a few hundred years to develop into its gilded age legend of high
2:59.3	dollar homes and high society heiresses.
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