TIGHR planning day in Newport, Rhode Island

[00:00:04]Welcome to Newport, Rhode Island. I'm Diana. Welcome back to Ticker. We are here at the Viking Hotel where we will be having the Tiger Convention starting on Halloween, October 31st of 2027, next year already. So, at the Vikings since we've been here last, and you've seen it last, they have done a massive redo. So, we are here on Belleview A, right, which is like the street. It goes all the way to the ocean in Newport. This is where all of the Gilded Age mansions are. This building is of the same age. So, we are here in the center of Newport looking down Belleview. If you walk in that direction, you will hit the Breakers and Marble House and the Elms and every one of those beautiful historic mansions that you can name. In every other direction, more colonial era houses than anywhere else. Right. Almost everything you see and trip over dates to the 1600s and 1700s. It's remarkable. So, we'll come this way to the Vikings. They have redone everything. Their public spaces, their bedrooms, all of it. So, let's take a peek at what it is looking like like now. Now, we negotiated this contract with the Viking two years ago.

[00:01:14]So, we got prices from pre- renovation and we will benefit from that renovation because it is looking gorgeous at this point and we are still locked in at those same low prices. So, good for us, right? So, this is this beautiful historic building.

[00:01:35]And let's take some photo. Let's Rebecca, you do a video as we go in of some of the prettiness here. symbol and the symbol of Newport is the pineapple for a welcome. So you're seeing lots of pineapple motifs.

[00:01:50]See the hotel dates to 1926. This hotel get this cute plate right here too.

[00:02:12]So, here is the lobby. When you're in the lobby, down there are a bunch of small rooms that we're using for our hooking harbor, which is where people can get together and hook outside of classes, outside of talks. In this way is like a food area and barbec um is just loaded with little sort of enclave areas where you can settle in with your hooking or to catch up with an old friend. They're just everywhere in this hotel. This is the food and breakfast area over here.

[00:03:04]>> This is where you'll be having breakfast.

[00:03:13]>> And surrounding the hotel are a series of patios going all the way around. So, hoping we have good weather next year.

[00:03:20]kind of hard to predict. Even with the farmers on now, if we have good weather, we will be spending a lot of time outside catching some of these ceiling mirrors.

[00:03:35]>> Let's head to the ballroom. The ballroom is where we're going to have uh a good part of the rug show and also our emporium days. Emporium days referring to like the guilded age of Newport, right? All of those big shoppers, right?

[00:03:47]the Aers and the Belellmonts and like the Vanderbilts, right? Those big those big shoppers. Um we're going to have at least we're going to have two full days, right, Rebecca? And an evening before where vendors will be set up. So, this will be a big shopping space. Let's look at the ballroom where that will happen.

[00:04:20]You can leave the beans in the syrup.

[00:04:23]So, the configuration will be different. Of course, you're going to see people in here who are selling. You're going to see rug displays. You're going to be seeing a lot of demonstrators. So, this whole room will be filled with tables, demonstrations. And this feeds out onto a couple of um different sort of porch areas. Let's look if you can picture this with just infinite uh rug rug related shopping, textiles, shopping, right? Uh seems like a dream. And through here is another patio space. Now, because this is a smaller hotel, right, there's plenty of room for us, but it's basically a buyout situation. So, it'll be us here. You're not going to bump into other people. There's not going to be bus groups here. It's going to be us.

[00:05:20]So, we'll be spilling out into all of these places. This happens to be a covered place, but surrounding the whole hotel and heading out into the parking lot. There are so many places to be besides in your classroom and besides in your hotel room, right? So, should we head down to some of the teacher rooms or see if any of the smaller classrooms are open? This is a Saturday in the summer and we've been told this is the biggest uh wedding weekend in Newport.

[00:05:47]So, um we're not we're not bumping into any of that, but it could be that some of the rooms that we'd like to see are being used for other things. Let's see if we're lucky or not.

[00:05:57]>> You pause it. Okay.

[00:06:03]>> It's really nice because although there are some nice breakfast places around here, this is like a breakfast cafe. So, if all you want in the morning is like a quick snack and a coffee, this is the perfect place.

[00:06:15]Up this ramp are a couple of the rooms.

[00:06:17]Oh, down there is the spa and everything. You going to head down?

[00:06:21]>> This is the conference rooms.

[00:06:22]>> The conference rooms. Okay.

[00:06:25]>> This is the lower level. And of course there are um elevators. This is almost like if you think of a split level house, these are all sort of shorter staircases, right? There's staggered staircases, but there's also plenty of elevators. There's two sets of elevators. When you're down here in the large conference room area, we've got this beautiful patio as well. So, you'll probably be spending time out there, and that feeds into the parking lot. Over here is one of the big ball rooms that um it's one of those rooms that has the movable wall. So, it could be like a quarter of the size, the full size. This will be where we meet for our big stuff like our big nights and gala stuff and things like that when we're all together at once. And it looks like it's empty.

[00:07:18]It looks like there's a conference coming in. This is a quarter of it or an eighth of it. Right? This is a much bigger room. But you can see the pan I won't do it. I won't do it. But you can see how the panels open and it turns into this vast room. So we will be after breakfast time closing some of these walls so we can have smaller classroom spaces. So this will be fractioned out at that point. But it does it is a mammoth room when this is opened up. And that will be one of the places where we find each other often. Should we head back upstairs to some of the smaller rooms? Paste. It takes forever. So, this is the other side of the wall where we were. So, this is a second a second part of the larger puzzle. And this is a great classroom space for spaces like endangered species that have many teachers, right? Many teachers coming on different days because the class repeats itself. A space like this will be, for example, for endangered species because what whichever teacher you're taking it with and it's a heavier pick, right?

[00:08:14]You'll you'll be down here doing it. And the reason we're running some classes multiple times is to avoid disappointment for people who didn't get into the class. We're trying to have teachers teach at least two times so that we avoid that bitter disappointment of not getting the class you want. So if a class repeats itself, it will stay parked in the same room and that teacher will be able to offer um merch, right?

[00:08:38]Like wool and supplies and things like that, possibly um a display like an art display. So this is yet another piece of the same room. You can see the sort of scale of the room.

[00:08:49]>> And that one >> goes in half too.

[00:08:52]>> Yes, these go in half as well. So these can be rooms that seat 20 or 30 people.

[00:08:57]Uh but opened up it's more like 800. So we won't be that big. And [snorts] the spa is right this way, which is really fun. There's a fitness pool. There's an actual spa if you are someone who likes to make a reservation at a spa. I have to admit I'm not one of those people.

[00:09:13]I'm not a spa person, but I know there are a lot of spa people out there. This one is so beautiful. There's a salt wall. Maybe we can take a little video in there. Let's see if they will allow that. There's a fitness room. This might be Is that the pool? There's the fitness room.

[00:09:31]And here's the pool. Yeah. See? Oh, you need a card to get in there. Can you take it through the >> Yeah, it's like a long skinny one. for doing labs. Now, where's the um where's the the fitness center and the spa?

[00:09:47]>> I think this I think it's right in here.

[00:09:49]>> Oh, okay.

[00:09:52]Okay. Should I ask Shall I ask if we can look at the salt wall? Yeah. This is another courtyard that's completely enclosed by the walls of the Viking, right? Cuz it's like a U-shaped um hotel. And you can see this is a courtyard that includes aderondex seating, tables, corn, corn pole. Is that what that thing is called? that game. Yeah. So, again, so many and and you're only seeing scratching the surface here, so many places that one can be at this hotel just to kind of roost and reset yourself. You you are not like obliged to hang out Stephen King style in your room, right? You can pop out and visit with other people.

[00:10:28]There's so many places to do that.

[00:10:29]That's one of the things we loved about this hotel is it is not a chain hotel.

[00:10:34]It doesn't have the feel of a chain hotel. We got it for a better price than the chain hotels in town. I think we made out like bandits. Rebecca, what do you think?

[00:10:41]>> I do.

[00:10:41]>> Good. Let's see if we can look at any of the rooms upstairs. This is another one of those many areas where you might sit and work on your stuff for a while. And I don't want to open these doors cuz we don't know if there's events happening, but there are two or three smaller classrooms behind these doors, which are great because not all of the classrooms are things that um are require a giant room, right? Some of them are like small small classes that require looking at someone's hands. So those kinds of small classes will take place in these smaller rooms, but another great place to sit.

[00:11:12]And this is another sort of um larger classroom that can be split into two spaces. So you can see where that wall happens.

[00:11:21]So either if we need the large space, right, for a really huge class or if we need the two smaller spaces, these are going to be used as classrooms for sure.

[00:11:30]Should we see what we can see in this direction?

[00:11:33]So I did dare to just open one of the handles. This is the Turo room which is representative of one of the smallest classrooms. So this might be used as a classroom. This might be used as part of cooking harbor where you just sit. But you can see that this is the kind of atmosphere that this place has this sort of grand old time like grand old lady on Belleview kind of atmosphere. So, um, I think all of these rooms are have charm, right? Have a unique kind of charm that feels like Newport wherever you are and what classes you're signing up for. I think you're really going to feel the spirit of Newport when you're inside working on your projects as well as outside walking around. And we'll take you there next.

[00:12:12]Yeah, we're head we're headed back out because we want to show you the chapel.

[00:12:15]We probably can't get in there cuz I bet there is a wedding in there today. But one more view because it's quieter here of where you go downstairs if you want to grab a quick coffee because that way is a set of bathrooms. That way is a set of bathrooms. There's elevators down here. There's elevators there.

[00:12:30]Just super cute donuts, muffins, local bakery stuff, drinks to grab, yogurts, fruits, things like that. So say you're not looking to exit, right? Cuz there's stuff also right across the street and you're just looking for something quick.

[00:12:45]This is just a great potion, you know.

[00:12:49]>> I'm just doing a pan shot of Rebecca and our friend Phyllis, who's actually a local and helping us a lot. Yes, I am talking about you. A local.

[00:12:57]>> A local.

[00:12:59]So, they're sitting in one of these cute places. There's like a see-through fireplace, right? There's different people in there. But another space that you might go and there's some people sitting out on the porch, right? Another place you might go down this street. So many things for you. beautiful shops and um restaurants, quick places to eat.

[00:13:18]There are the guys who want to shut the door for you and open it as soon as you come anywhere near them. Very nice. Very nice. Now, we're going to go outside.

[00:13:26]I'm taking a picture of Rebecca because I just want to show you these old keys behind the counter. How fantastic is that?

[00:13:35]Right. I'm going to take a little video out here cuz it's so cute back here.

[00:13:38]This is one of these outdoor spaces.

[00:13:39]We're heading over to the chapel. You can see there's little fireplaces out here which will be very nice in the autumn. The hotel is right behind us.

[00:13:48]And we're headed out to the main street.

[00:13:49]If you're wondering what's over there, it's the ocean. The ocean is further out there. That is the um is that the art museum or the library?

[00:13:56]>> Redwood Library.

[00:13:57]>> Okay, so that's the oldest. That's Redwood Library right here. The oldest library in the country. Behind me is Turo Synagogue, which is the oldest synagogue in the country. Look at that nice Koopa up there. Let's check out the um we came out on the sidewalk, but you could also go through the parking lot, which we didn't because we were already out front and we want to show you the chapel space.

[00:14:18]>> Setting something up. So, it is open.

[00:14:20]>> Oh, the guy is telling us it's open and we can go in. Let's check it out. Here we are coming up to the chapel. This is the back of the Viking here. That's the parking side. And here we are. You see Rebecca on the sidewalk. We're getting um a sneak peek at the K Chapel, right?

[00:14:34]This is built in 1859.

[00:14:36]beautiful Gothic doors and we can sneak inside here. We will do some um events in here, possibly talks and displays and things. Thank you for letting us do this. So, you see it's got this beautiful sort of tutor beam roof. It's got a little precenium over there, a side door there, beautiful stained glass windows. Can we walk into that little um side thing?

[00:15:00]>> Okay, sure.

[00:15:03]So, we're still thinking about what events will happen here. This is a giant lofty space where it might be nice to have talks and things. The lighting, as you can imagine, is not great in here.

[00:15:12]It's dim. It's romantic and dim because this is a tiny little antique chapel.

[00:15:18]Let's look at the side room here. We know that we want to have like a book day where lots of rock hooking authors who you will know and some that hopefully will be new where people are sort of um showing their books and what what's available and doing signings. It might be that we use this space for that because there's a couple of little rooms here too. Oh, they're using them for storage right now.

[00:15:40]>> Could still get a feel for it, right?

[00:15:42]Thank you.

[00:15:43]>> Of course. Yeah.

[00:15:43]>> Yeah. This is another one of these small rooms.

[00:15:49]and restrooms, right?

[00:15:55]>> Super charming. I'm surprised there's not a wedding here.

[00:15:59]>> Just so you know, we entered the chapel here from the street, right? And there is for those of you who need to be handicap accessible, there is a second entrance that that is the ramp. So, you're all set for that for sure, right?

[00:16:12]It's not just steps. We all want to use this beautiful building as well. The Viking Hotel is right here on this corner right here. And I'm showing you down one side street. This is a this is a a town of lots of cobbles, right? So we have the sidewalk, but there's lots of oldtime cobbles because this is a seaside village, right? This was a little port back in the day. And the presence of all of these colonial houses, that's the back of the Viking there. Um is just prolific. Like these are obviously colonial houses only appear in the United States and there are more here than there are anywhere else. If you're thinking what about Salem, Mass? So beautiful, but not as many colonial houses as Newport. So if you're a fan of architecture, um this is going to be something else, another sort of angle or layer of interest for you.

[00:17:02]Uh you are going to want to take night walks, day walks, travel these little streets, these little residential streets. Uh these are all a system of one ways tucked little churches and graveyards tucked in in between little shops tucked in but you will just see uh houses of all different age but mostly some old colonials. Let's look for some of those. I'm right here on the corner just a few feet up from where we last stopped. We've got a colonial house here. If you can see down this little street we have got I see one, two, three in a row right here. Look at this pretty old church. Right. Everything is tucked in so nice for you. So many things to see. The Belleview A is up there, right?

[00:17:43]And then we have a series of streets like this that go all the way down to the water. Water is on this side as well. No matter where you walk, you're going to end up hitting the water. Let's walk this way. I had to turn the camera back on. Look at how pretty this house is. This is an 1845 house. I mean, this is like with a little pineapple, right? The symbol of Newport. How cute as a button is this little sweetheart. Oh god.

[00:18:12]>> Oh my god.

[00:18:16]You see that sneaky peeky in there? A little playhouse in there past that little Japanese red maple. How cute is that? Yes. So, this is the main street of Newport. We saw like a trolley on the last block. The trolley will be running while you're here. Phenomenal amount uh taking you around town. They've got several trolleys. This is the main shopping street pronounced themes, not temps like in England. Tons of restaurants and cute stops. This is part of brick marketplace here. Um, a historical museum and then a series of shops. And behind it is a pedestrian only area that attaches to two wararfs that are filled. Oh, Rebecca found something she likes.

[00:18:54]>> I need a sheep water bottle.

[00:18:56]>> Oh, she needs a sheep water bottle.

[00:18:58]>> Look at that.

[00:18:58]>> Well, obviously, who doesn't, right?

[00:19:00]>> All right, I'm going in. Okay, we're coming off of Brick Marketplace. We were doing a little bit of shopping. There's the back of one of the historic societies. There's multiple historic and preservation societies here. This is part of Brick Marketplace, which is And there's the square where we were standing earlier, Washington Square. And there's just so many cute places back here. There are rows of streets like this, warves, and rows of pedestrian only streets where you can find some really cute souvenirs. If you're a big shopper and you want to step out for a little while, you see the sort of expansive square behind us. Beautifully lit at night, including in the autumn.

[00:19:36]We're headed over to Discover Newport, which is part of the visitor information that is here in the um brick marketplace and then we're going to head over to the mansions. Okay, >> so we just left the Viking and we are heading down Belle View. We see all of these cute little buildings and shops down this way. On our left is we just passed the Redwood Library. We're also passing the Art Museum right here on my left, the Newport Art Museum. Super super well-known artists represented in there. You'll be very surprised at who you see. Over on the right, remember this, Rebecca, this is like the Elps Lodge or the Masonic Lodge or something.

[00:20:12]They're having a little fair outside Retro Mania. Uh oh, good thing I didn't know that or I would have slammed the brakes on. But um that's a nice public space, too. That's an option for us if we overflow. As you see, we're coming up to an intersection here, uh, I think with Spring Street. That's that next light.

[00:20:30]>> Remember Pasta Beach was a really great restaurant.

[00:20:33]>> We really enjoyed that. Really cute. So, this is Belleview. This is like several streets parallel uh to Tames, which is way down at the foot of the hill there, right? It's not much of a hill, but it's many streets down at the water level.

[00:20:45]When we come through this intersection here, you're going to see on our left one of the most famous uh buildings. You go ahead. one of the most famous buildings in town. It was designed by uh Richard Morris Hunt, who is considered the architect of Newport. I think he designed the Breakers. He I think he designed Central Park, maybe the Boston Gardens. He designed that the green one.

[00:21:06]Yeah, the tutor one. The Tennis Hall of Fame is now part of that building as well. That's something fun that you might want to do. As soon as we cross this intersection and you see that was actually the first shopping mall, right?

[00:21:18]That was a series of shops in there back in the Gilded Age. He designed that, he designed a bunch of the mansions and then he essentially dropped dead. I mean, he overworked himself as a quite young man uh with all of these architectural commitments. Uh this building here on the left is called Traver's Block and it was just a bunch of shops during the Guilded Age that people would come to for various things.

[00:21:40]This is the extension of it. Here we've got Oh, that's a great breakfast place right there. Love Forge is a great breakfast place. Do you see on the left the International Tennis Hall of Fame on the right CVS? So, there's still basic things here, stuff that everyone needs.

[00:21:53]It's still happening. This is Belleview, and you drive this all the way to the end. It ends at Rough Point, which was Doris Duke's house. That's also open to the public. That's not considered one of the preservation houses that the Newport Society of Preservation um owns. Um they have a handful that you can buy one ticket for, and you can go to all of the houses. Over on our right, coming up is King's Coat. This is considered the first of the mansions, 1841. That is way before the Gilded Age, which officially starts in the 1890s. So, you're going to see coming up on both sides a lot of these guilded age houses. Some of them more famous than others. Certainly, the holy trinity of guilded age mansions are the Breakers, Marble House, and the Elves. We are going to Rose Cliff, which should be open next fall when Ticker runs. Rose Cliff is known for its owner who was uh I forgot what his name is, but he developed roses. And oh, that's the vehicle I want right there. That's the color I want, too. All I need is that $70,000.

[00:22:55]Rose clip was owned by a man who bred roses as a hobby. And he was the first person to breed the American Beauty rose. Now, if you use Cushing Dyes, you know that American Beauty is one of their shades of pink. He he developed that rose right here on Belleview. This is the Isaac Bell house on the right. He was a merchant who traded with China.

[00:23:15]You can see the bamboo posts on the house. That was like a hatt tip to his China trade back in the day. We're going to go to Rosecliffe. We only have time to go to one and the three of us have seen all of the big ones, including Elm House over here on the right.

[00:23:29]>> That's one of my favorites.

[00:23:30]>> This one is stupendous. And the gardens are stupendous.

[00:23:33]>> Yeah, the gardens >> absolutely beautiful. Highly recommend the Holy Trinity, the three biggies.

[00:23:39]Rose Cliff should be open in the fall.

[00:23:41]It's one of the lesser known ones.

[00:23:43]Totally different atmosphere. Um so we're going to try that one and we'll take Yeah, why not go, right? You have the green light for sure. Right. I'm on the major road and you're not, but go ahead and go. Right. Some of the houses, look over here on the right, have been torn down, right? Many of them are lost and and there's that kind of terrible eyesore instead. Right. The one on the left, um Wayside, uh privately owned.

[00:24:04]The white lodge has forever been as apartments broken into apartments. These houses are known as white elephants because who can afford to keep these kinds of houses, right? Very few people.

[00:24:15]Having said that, the one on the right that's coming up, the rockery is owned by one of my childhood friends who I grew up with. That is her one of her private houses. Obviously, they are doing very well. She must not have opened a rug cooking business, right?

[00:24:27]She's doing very well. She lives she lives there part-time. Over on the left, I think that is Oliver Belmont, right?

[00:24:33]known for the Belmont races, known for the Cape Cod Canal, known for the Cape Cod uh the New York subway. Um and he is sitting there looking very very pensive.

[00:24:41]He was very unpopular in society and he was not invited to parties because he was a bit of a crazy bachelor and he hated the fact that he was not invited places. So he went and put a statue of himself on the corner of the busiest road so people would have to look at him. A lot of characters here in Newport. So we're looking out for Rose Cliff now. Is it coming up soon, do you think? We're going to pause the video as we pull.

[00:25:08]One of the interesting things about these houses is that there are so many beautiful imported trees imported from other places, right? These people were wealthy when they built these houses and they chose a lot of tree varieties.

[00:25:20]There's plaques on most trees. So, you can see lots of unusual ones like weeping uh elms and maples, trees that are not indigenous to the United States.

[00:25:30]very cool to be able to see so many unusual um plants and trees um while it's just a sort of um added gift. When you visit these mansions, you get an eyeful of stuff other than beautiful architecture and beautiful decor. Let's check out Rosecliffe.

[00:25:48]So, we are here at Rosecliffe. It is raining a little bit, which is a bummer.

[00:25:52]See all the beautiful plants around here? Hey, guess what that is right there? It's the ocean. The houses on this side of the street, right against the ocean, tend to have gardens that are not as great because because you have the ocean, right? So that's in place of your garden. Houses on the opposite side of the street, also Belleview, that don't have the ocean tend to have the best gardens because they would have to, right? You'd have to have something spectacular. This one is kind of an anomaly because it's got both. It's got beautiful gardens, but it's also got that ocean view. I don't know if I'll be able to take videos inside, but we're excited to get in there. Right, Rebecca?

[00:26:26]Yes, >> we had such a good time at Rosefoot.

[00:26:30]Absolutely beautiful house. And you can see the rain has really kicked up. The forecast was for rain all day, so I feel like we made out like bandits. We have a little time left, so we are uh heading into um Marble House. Uh so I think this is Alva Vanderbilt's house, uh 1892.

[00:26:48]And oh boy, look at those hydrangeas.

[00:26:52]Got my best umbrella here. I don't want to lose this guy.

[00:26:55]So, um, yeah, the prestige of this on the historic register of this place really lies in the vast ridiculous amount of marble uh, that is in the interior. I'll see if I can do a little bit of recording. Remember we were talking about how beautiful these trees are. So, what is that? A London planet tree. Good lord, it looks like a it looks like a white oak. Um, look at these hydrangeas. I don't know if you can tell. It's hard in the rain, but can you see how beautiful those are? My word. Here we go. Rebecca's cruising on ahead.

[00:27:37]This is the kind of stuff we got going on in here. Yeah, there are um three or four mansions that will be open uh when you come next fall, and this is certainly going to be one of them. This is one of the serious ones. Look at this marble.

[00:27:54]Marble >> Gothic room. Feels very Gothic.

[00:28:04]This is just This is like lightning tour. I do love this right here. Look at this.

[00:28:10]What does all this mean?

[00:28:13]Isn't she gorgeous? Rebecca's already in here. So cozy, right? You see herself curling up with the Hallmark movie.

[00:28:22]Notology.

[00:28:29]>> Oh, right, right. It's Bakas up there having a feast.

[00:28:35]>> Oh, interesting. Poseidon and Bakas.

[00:28:38]>> Oh, right, right, right. Oh, I see. Yep.

[00:28:41]Of course. I like life likes me.

[00:28:45]>> Oh, I see. I see.

[00:28:49]>> Wow.

[00:28:54]Oh, yeah. There's Venus. It looks like the Bacelli, too.

[00:29:02]>> Yeah. Oh, look at that nice piano. Isn't that pretty?

[00:29:08]Is this for you?

[00:29:10]It's great to look at, right? Makes you feel like you're on the Lara in France or something looking at the chateau.

[00:29:19]These are one of the things we love to see when we're here. Rebecca always picks up on stuff like this, right? This has got to This room has got to be something to do with um Let me see what the plaque says. The sea, right? Like Newport, the sea. I mean, all of the hardware in rooms like this, it's just bonkers. Even like the hinges and stuff.

[00:29:39]Oh, look it. There's another sea monster. Just caught my eye.

[00:29:48]Yeah, this is the gold room.

[00:29:54]That is the theme. Gold, gold, gold. And more gold.

[00:30:00]Go upstairs here. Oh, look at Cupid with the I assume it's Cupid. The shell.

[00:30:05]Isn't that gorgeous? And oh, look out.

[00:30:09]All this marble.

[00:30:12]It really is so inspiring. You see so many design motifs on tours like this that you just want to capture and collect. You know, Rebecca pointed out that all of these sort of golden plaques going up all the way from the bottom are different stories like this like uh mythological stories. You see them all over the place. There's a lot of We're only spending a little bit of time here um because it's it's really a work day for us, but neither of us have been to this one for a few years. So, it's good to check it out again cuz this is one that we know that you'll be able to come to as well.

[00:30:53]Wow, that's where I want to go. Look at this little staircase.

[00:30:58]Oh, wow. Look.

[00:31:07]Oh, of course. Dang it.

[00:31:11]Oh, God. Doesn't that look mysterious?

[00:31:15]Just goes on and on, huh?

[00:31:24]Fast guest sitting room. Good lord. Oh, wow.

[00:31:32]Look at all the closets and everything up here. Oh, I wonder is that the elevator? That circle thing. Oh, look at all the hallways of storage.

[00:31:43]>> This is the sitting room for the guest room.

[00:31:45]>> Oh, the sitting room for the guests.

[00:31:47]Well, you know, this is the coziest room we've seen so far. That's a quite pretty rug, too, isn't it? It's got like a heart on it over there. Can you see?

[00:31:58]Oh, here, too.

[00:32:01]Oh, that's quite pretty.

[00:32:09]Gosh, so much.

[00:32:13]This one feels Rebecca like a like a rabbit war in, you know?

[00:32:17]>> Gosh, it's literally endless. This be great for a murder mystery party.

[00:32:26]>> Who's that?

[00:32:31]This is the most this area where I guess like staff lived, right? Cuz this is nothing like the other rooms. These are actually I think the most charming and [clears throat] humans scaled.

[00:32:44]I mean, still this would be ridiculous, right? If this was your room, but compared to all the others, this is quite cozy.

[00:32:52]Another one of these >> crazy doorork knobs. Look at that.

[00:33:00]Wow, that's pretty.

[00:33:02]Oh, yeah. Down into the dungeons and up until God knows what. It goes up quite far.

[00:33:11]God, I wish they would let us go up there.

[00:33:14]We're going to go check out the gift store. We know that it's down there somewhere. We see if we can get any souvenirs. Rebecca, did you like this one?

[00:33:23]>> I think I like the Elms better.

[00:33:24]>> Yeah, >> but interesting. This is really over the top. We're gonna find out more about Alva Vanderbilt.

[00:33:31]>> Their side.

[00:33:32]>> It does. It the Grant The scale of Grant is kind of over the top, right? The Yeah. scale is breaking. All righty. You know, this is the part I think everybody loves the most. It's like the old kitchens, right? With the old sinks.

[00:33:46]Isn't this part the most interesting when you get away from all of that?

[00:33:52]Water.

[00:33:55]>> Gosh, I don't know.

[00:33:56]says empty full. Maybe >> I guess that thing right tells you if it's empty or full or what. Yeah, very austere down here. Soap soap stone um sink. I mean, I would love to have this, right? Wouldn't you love to have this for your dying?

[00:34:16]Dumb waiter. Oh, that's cool. Oh, look at that. Look at that. Look at that.

[00:34:20]Servant stairs.

[00:34:26]It's quite light.

[00:34:27]>> Whoa.

[00:34:28]Whoa.

[00:34:30]It is quite light.

[00:34:32]>> I mean, even on a really rainy day, they are getting some nice light. They're doing a lot of nice restoration and stuff, too, which is great to see. If you are a cook, you're going to love it down here, right? This is a great kitchen to explore.

[00:34:45]They're doing a lot of ads for the HBO series, The Guilded Age, because it some of it was filmed in here. Apparently, much of it was filmed in here. I haven't watched this yet, but I really would like to. Maybe you've seen this already, but this will be a good thing to catch before you come.

[00:35:02]Wow, look at that.

[00:35:10]Becca said that's an enormous auga. Yes, it is.

[00:35:14]Gosh, how cool is that?

[00:35:20]Wow. So many ways to burn yourself in one place, right?

[00:35:26]This is what I like to see. Stuff like this. So cool.

[00:35:32]Now, I love these. I have a collection of these myself. These little molds we saw in one of the other houses, a George Washington mold, an ice cream mold. Oh, look at the turtle mold. Isn't that fun?

[00:35:44]Oh, look at it's like a ship. It looks like the Titanic.

[00:35:48]>> How fun is that? Of course, Alva, one of the good things you could say about her was she was a great suffragette. She's got all of these boats for women plates.

[00:36:07]How cool is that? Wouldn't you love to find one of those in an antique shop?

[00:36:12]Not guilted age, but what a beautiful painting.

[00:36:16]Isn't that charming? It's got so much expression, so much energy to it. That is Newport.

[00:36:23]We are headed out to the little tea house. Rebecca and I were just talking about how Alva uh was such a great feminist and votes for women and all that. Remember, she had this tea house.

[00:36:34]It got moved, I think, in the 1970s because of erosion. It was too close to the water. But this is where she would have her parties and her talks with other women making making plans and trying to change the world. She was very effective um as a suffragette, right?

[00:36:49]She was very helpful in the suffragette movement because she could throw a lot of money at the cause. That's that thing we thought was a pirate ship. We're going to go in in a little while. Got to say, I really like this house. Didn't really like the decor and the rooms and stuff. It's a bit over the top, but there is this great angle of storytelling at this one. And really, I think there's a great angle of storytelling at all of these houses.

[00:37:11]They all have a different personality.

[00:37:13]The one thing they have in common is that grotesque amount of money, right, which can put you off. But this is part of our history here in this part of the country. And um yeah, all of these characters, right? All of these eccentric characters. There's so many great stories, so many great designs, great pattern ideas here.

[00:37:32]>> Proud of yourself?

[00:37:34]>> No.

[00:37:36]>> And if you get tired of all of that uh wealth, you can come to the ocean.

[00:37:43]right right in the backyard. And um there is a walk that goes behind um all of these houses. It's called the cliff walk. Let me see if I can get a better view over there. You can get behind them on Rugles. A we'll remind you about that when you come here. Oh, look at the rose hips. How pretty are the rose hips? Oh, they're so wild and pretty. But yeah, you can walk behind these houses right behind all of them along the ocean and visit the I think it's called the 39 steps where the servants would gather and chat. Oh, Bunny, did you see Bunny?

[00:38:17]Did you see little old Bunny? He was just a tiny little guy. Bunny, I not going to get you.

[00:38:24]See what we can see back here. Big step.

[00:38:26]Oh, wow.

[00:38:29]Isn't that gorgeous? Where' Bunny go?

[00:38:32]Gosh, of course, if you just follow the road down, you are at the ocean. So many beaches here and uh easy parking. Not a lot of competition in the fall.

[00:38:47]Isn't it gorgeous out there? Even on a rainy day, it's gorgeous.