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Experience into the Gilded Age
Pedal south on Ocean Avenue, alongside breathtaking bluffs and previous Brenton Level State Park, widespread with kite flyers, till you attain the secluded Bailey’s Seaside. There’s powdery white sand, few, if any, individuals, and no place to park a automotive. From there, a four-minute spin north on Bellevue Avenue will convey you to the Beaux-Artwork model Marble Home (entry, $25), which value $11 million to construct between 1888 and 1892 ($7 million spent on marble). It was William Vanderbilt’s thirty ninth birthday current to his spouse Alva, who would make this dwelling an unofficial command publish of Rhode Island’s suffrage motion. The free self-guided audio tour gives informative nuggets about rooms just like the Versailles-inspired grand salon. Suffragettes drank tea from “Votes for Ladies” chinaware within the Chinese language Tea Home, which, right this moment, serves a $35 prix-fixe afternoon tea on weekends.
