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Beechwood
Beechwood may refer to: Plants * Beechwood, the wood from any of ten species of beech trees * Malay beechwood, tree ''Gmelina arborea'', and its wood * Willow beechwood '' Faurea saligna'', and its wood Places Canada * Beechwood, Ontario United Kingdom * Beechwood, Runcorn, Cheshire, England * Beechwood, Merseyside, England **Beechwood railway station * Beechwood, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England * Beechwood, West Yorkshire, a location in England * Beechwood, West Midlands, a location in England * Beechwood, Highland, a location in Scotland * Beechwood, Newport, Wales United States * Beechwood, Indiana * Beechwood, Michigan, in Ottawa County * Beechwood, Iron County, Michigan * Beechwood, Mississippi * Beachwood, Ohio, formerly Beechwood * Beechwood, Wood County, West Virginia * Beechwood, Wyoming County, West Virginia * Beechwood, Wisconsin Buildings United States * Beechwood (Astor mansion), Newport, Rhode Island * Beechwood (Isaac Kinsey Hous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beechwood (Astor Mansion)
Beechwood is a Gilded Age mansion and estate located at 580 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island best known for having been owned by the Astor family. Part of the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, it was built between 1852–53 and designed in the Italianate style by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. Richard Morris Hunt renovated the estate in 1881 after it was bought the year before by William Backhouse Astor, Jr. History Beechwood was built as a marine villa for New Yorker Daniel Parish, a clothing merchant whose operations extended to Southern cities. Being a nephew of Thomas Powell, a steamboat magnate from Newburgh, New York, Parish commissioned the design from Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux, whose office was based there. Downing's trip to visit the building site with Parish in July 1852 never occurred; he died in a steamboat accident before reaching New York. Vaux completed the house in 1853 with a "Palladian spirit" and published it in his book ''Vil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
