Rough Point – Newport

Built for Frederick Vanderbilt in the late 1880s as a stone English manor-style house, Rough Point changed hands twice before James B. Duke — who built his fortune through the American Tobacco Company — bought it and expanded it substantially. He died not long after, leaving everything to his twelve-year-old daughter Doris. She kept the house for the rest of her life, filling it with museum-quality art and furnishings. The Newport Restoration Foundation now runs it as a house museum, preserving the collection largely as she left it.