Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.

Thank you for joining me. Today, as we continue our summertime tour of Bellevue Avenue,

we're going to take a little detour in this episode to one legendary road, Ruggles Avenue.

We got a few homes to talk about today filled with fancy folks and a whole lot of spider webs on this street before we move any further southward.

Included in this episode, four homes, Seaview Terrace, the Cloisters, Fair Home and Anglesea, and so, so many attachments to

our man Nick. Let's investigate.

Music Hey friends, Alicia, I am not done yet on Bellevue Avenue or in Newport Road Island.

We have a few more major homes on Bellevue Avenue to cover, but before we move any further southward, I want to head over to the eastern bay, go a little bit north, talk about one tiny road in particular named Ruggles Avenue. This is a side road that leads off of Bellevue Avenue over to the bay, but a site of many a home on our tour with so many spider webs. So just a little down from

Chateau-sur-Mair and a little up from Rosecliff, there's Road, Ruggles Avenue. We take this out to the bay.

Going down Ruggles, the first home to the right is Sea View Terrace. We mentioned

Sea View Terrace previously, as it was the backdrop from Collinwood Mansion in Dark Shadows.

But the history and the legacy of the actual homes, plural, is definitely worth a mention.

Seaview Terrace is huge, enormous, y'all. Almost 40,000 square feet, 54 rooms. It is the very largest

Seaview Terraces of homes built in Newport during the Gilded Age. Seavu Terrace is the fourth

largest of the Newport cottages. It comes in behind the breakers,

ochre court, and bellcourt. Sea View Terrace, fourth biggest home.

Biggest home of the gilded age. Newport, Rhode Island, was not the first place that it was built.

Sea View Terrace, the home, literally, was originally built in Washington, D.C. by a man named Edson Bradley. This home in the District of Columbia was a gift for his wife, Julia.

Edson and Julia were long married, really happy relationship. Edson Bradley is kind of winding it down in D.C. Prohibition is

breaking his lucrative things happening down in Washington, and he's like, forget it. Julia, me and you

were out of here. But we love this home that we've constructed in D.C. Let's just

take it with us to Newport. And they do. This story, friends, I'm taking this from house history.com,

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