Newport · Boutique hotel
The Chanler at Cliff Walk
The Chanler at Cliff Walk is a 20-room Gilded Age mansion above the Atlantic on Newport's Cliff Walk.
- Up to 100 guests
- 20 rooms
The story
A Stanford White mansion on Bellevue Avenue
Rosecliff was built between 1898 and 1902 for Theresa Fair Oelrichs, a silver heiress whose family fortune came from the Comstock Lode. Stanford White of McKim, Mead and White modelled it on the Grand Trianon at Versailles, in a smaller form, and it was known in its day for the large society parties she held there. The house passed through several owners until J. Edgar Monroe and his wife bought it in 1947 and, in 1971, gave it to the Preservation Society of Newport County with an endowment. The society still manages it as a house museum.
The ballroom, about 40 by 80 feet, is the principal event room and has been a film location, appearing in The Great Gatsby (1974), True Lies and Amistad. The ballroom takes around 160 guests for dinner and dancing, with the adjoining Salon as extra seating or a ceremony room. The house stands in about 6.5 acres of grounds for ceremonies and cocktails.
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