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Hammersmith Farm could be a Victorian mansion and close property set in Newport, Rhode Island, u. S. And was the childhood home to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.The property hosted the marriage reception of Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy.
During his presidency, Kennedy spent enough time at Hammersmith Farm that it absolutely was named because the “Summer White House.” Notably, JFK proclaimed that John McCone would become the new Director of the Central administrative body throughout one amongst his stays at Hammersmith in late Sep 1961.
The exterior was rehabilitated with equal sensitivity to the initial structure. Operating with Gubelman and also the Historic District Commission metal and Plexiglas porches were removed and brick to match the initial was reset and also the lightweight inexperienced paint accustomed hide the mismatched brick of decades of repairs was removed. Windows were restored to safeguard the house from the fierce ocean winds of winter.
New shingles and roof were put in following the initial field plans, and also the several sketches and images taken of the building over its a hundred and twenty year history. Mirthfully the building had been recorded from various angles and vantage points over the numerous decades and a transparent visual history existed as a guide.
The goal of the house owners, architects and also the HDC was to revive the Farm as shut as attainable to the looks one may need enjoyed in 1888. Concerning half the initial furnishings were came back to the Louis Auchincloss family underneath a previous agreement and also the family oversubscribed them off in an exceedingly Christie’s auction in 2000 that fetched $233,620.
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