Media Releases and Selected News Coverage

2025 Coverage

“Sessions” Music Videos in the Mansions

Hey Rhody – Newport Mansions Brings Live Music to Historic Halls (12-23-25)

Holidays at the Newport Mansions

Providence Journal – Inside and out, The Breakers offers a Gilded Age holiday experience (12-11-25)

Geothermal Climate Control

Boston Globe – Geothermal climate control is helping preserve the past at Newport’s historic mansions (11-24-25)

Historical Preservation

NPR interview with Chief Curator Leslie Jones on White House East Wing (audio 5:38 minutes)

Christine Baranski Conversation at The Elms

• Newport Buzz- ‘The Gilded Age’ Star Christine Baranski to Headline Special August Lecture at The Elms (7-28-25)
• WUN – Baranski Marvels at Gilded Age Family Ties (8-8-25)
• Boston Globe – Discussing “The Gilded Age” with Christine Baranski (8-9-25)
• Boston Globe – Gilded Age Star Says Mega Rich Have to Step Up (8-8-25)
• Providence Journal – Actors Reveal Their Favorite Moments From “The Gilded Age” (8-11-25)
• RI Monthly – A Night at The Elms With Christine Baranski (8-8-25)

The Newport Mansions in “The Gilded Age”
• Washington Post – Walk the scenes of The Gilded Age in Newport’s preserved mansions (7-31-25)
• Time Magazine – The real history behind the trips to Newport in HBO’s The Gilded Age (7-8-25)

“Richard Morris Hunt: In a New Light” Exhibition

•  Newport Life – Sneak Peek At The New Richard Morris Hunt Exhibition (5-20-25)
• Newport Daily News – Richard Morris Hunt Designed Gilded Age Homes Across Newport: New Exhibition Honors His Work (5-23-25)
• Galerie Magazine – Rosecliff Opens Exhibition Focused on Gilded Age Architect Richard Morris Hunt (7-2-25)

Sam Waterston Returns to Rosecliff on Anniversary of “Great Gatsby” Filming

• Providence Journal – On 50th anniversary of “Great Gatsby” in Newport, Mark Patinkin considers today’s overlaps (7-9-25)
• Boston Globe – Sam Waterston talks Great Gatsby, wealth disparity and other favorite topics (7-9-25)
• WhatsUpNewp – Sam Waterston returns to Rosecliff 51 years after Great Gatsby filming (7-13-25)

Museum Cafe at The Elms Carriage House

• Rhode Island Monthly – The Elms Mansion Opens Food and Drink Spot (7-14-25)
• WhatsUpNewp – Preservation Society shows off the elegance of the Carriage House at opening party (7-10-25)

“Iconic Trees of Newport” Forum at Rosecliff Highlights Toll of Beech Leaf Disease

• Providence Journal – This RI forest has been devastated by beech leaf disease (5-23-25)
• EcoRI – Iconic Trees Forum in Newport Tackles Issue of Beech Leaf Disease (5-12-25)
• Newport Buzz – At Rosecliff, a forum unites scientists, civic leaders and citizens to save Newport’s iconic trees (5-12-25)

Geothermal Installation at Chateau-sur-Mer

Newport This Week – Chateau-sur-Mer goes underground for energy (1-23-25)

“Monumenta” Art Exhibition 50th Anniversary

The Art Newspaper, “Revisiting Newport, Rhode Island’s 1974 public sculpture extravaganza” (11-14-24)

2024 Coverage

Hunter House & Sea-Level Rise

PBS Weekly, “Eroding History” (4-21-24)

“Gilded Age Newport in Color” Exhibition

• Antiques and The Arts Weekly (3-29-24)
• Bay State Banner (3-27-24)
• Rhode Island Monthly (3-12-24)

2023 Coverage

Rosecliff Restoration

• American Essence (9-18-23)
• Boston Globe (9-23-23)
• Newport Daily News-Providence Journal (8-25-23)

“The Celestial City: Newport and China” Exhibition

• Antiques & The Arts Weekly (9-8-23)
• Andrew Singer Talks About China (2-27-24)

Newport Mansions Wine & Food Festival

• The Boston Globe (9-28-23)

Other

• The Boston Globe – Trudy Coxe Wind Farm Editorial
• Providence Journal: Season 3 of HBO’s “The Gilded Age”
• Entertainment Weekly – Where was “The Gilded Age” filmed?