The Preservation Society of Newport County sponsors research and documentation projects to support its mission to preserve and interpret its historic properties.
The following research reports address subjects such as servant life, historic landscape, social history and historic dress. Each research report contains a table of contents listing time lines, historic objects, oral histories, and other archival sources related to each subject.
The reports were prepared by Graduate Research Fellows working under the direction of the Architectural Historian/Director of Academic Programs.
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This report outlines the Wetmore family's prominent role in Victorian life - from their position as international merchants to their key roles in American politics, the arts and historic preservation.
Examines the historical evolution of the gardens at Green Animals, biographical essays on the key historical figures of the Braytons, who owned the estate, and the Carreiro and Mendoncas, who were the two generations of Portugese-American gardeners at Green Animals. The report also contains detailed information on the topiary forms in the garden.
An analysis of the architectural plans and communications systems of the servants’ quarters of The Breakers. Also included is a study of servant life at The Breakers within the larger context of the history of domestic service in the 1890s and early 1900s.
