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Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont Postcard

Color postcard showing a mansion in gray and red stone against a blue sky, and text reading, “Residence of O.H.P. Belmont, Newport, R.I.”/tiles/collection/2/23181.xml
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Color postcard showing a mansion in gray and red stone against a blue sky, and text reading, “Residence of O.H.P. Belmont, Newport, R.I.”
Reverse of postcard, blank
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Date

ca. 1910

Publisher

Tichnor Brothers, Inc.

Dimensions

3 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (8.9 × 14 cm)

Accession Number

2016.027.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Oliver Belmont, Representative and scion of a wealthy New York family, built Belcourt, his grand summer home, in Newport, Rhode Island. The mansion had elaborate stained glass windows, blood-red damask curtains, and stables on the first floor for Belmont’s thoroughbred horses. He was one of a small number of Members of Congress whose houses so magnificent they were de facto destinations for sightseers, no matter who the owners were.

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