Hamilton Rice home, Newport, Rhode Island, exterior view, between 1917 and 1927. The Miramar neoclassical mansion was designed by Horace Trumbauer for heiress and philanthropist Eleanor Elkins Widener and her husband George Widener. After George died aboard the RMS Titanic in 1912 Eleanor married again, and Miramar was used as a summer residence by her and her second husband, geographer and explorer Alexander H. Rice Jr. The gardens were created by Jacques Gréber.

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