Vernon Court is a Gilded Age mansion designed by architects Carrère and Hastings, located at 492 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, on the Atlantic coast of the United States. Its design is an adaptation of an 18th-century French château, Château d'Haroué.
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