Bois Doré (Newport, Rhode Island)

Bois Doré is a French chateau-style mansion built in 1927 in Newport, Rhode Island.

It is described as one of the last great houses built for Newport,[1] and is a part of the Ochre Point-Cliffs Historic District.

[2][3][4] The 19,000-square-foot mansion is built of limestone in the French chateau style, and includes 25 bedrooms, a loggia and terrace, a 2,000 square foot grand ballroom, and is situated on four acres of land.

[6] It was later owned by Cambell's Soup heiress, Elinor Winifred Dorrance Hill Ingersoll[6] who married Vice Admiral Stuart Ingersoll, USN.

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