Upstairs, downstairs: behind the scenes at a Gilded-Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island

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All the historic mansions of Newport are over-the-top grand, for the self-made plutocrats who built them wanted to look as if they came from old money, and so they were willing to spend a lot of new money. Built in 1901 by coal magnate Edward J. Berwind and modeled after Paris's Chateau d'Asnieres, with some some 10 acres of formal gardens, The Elms is so grand that... keep reading