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Category:Vaucluse (Gervais Elam House)

English: In 1784, Gervais Elam, a Newport merchant, built the house and country estate known as Vaucluse. His nephew, Samuel Elam, an English merchant from Leeds, England, inherited Vaucluse, which he remodeled in 1803-1805, spending $80,000 on the house and formal gardens alone. There were rare trees and shrubs, six miles of winding walks, a Roman temple, and seventeen acres of formal garden. The large manor house and property later became the property of Charles DeWolf of Bristol and of the Hazard family. Thomas R. Hazard, known-as "Shepherd Tom," a prominent South County industrialist, philanthropist and social reformer, retired from manufacturing in 1840 and settled at Vaucluse. Hazard lived here and continued his work as a leader in enlightened movements, particularly in reforming the management of the poor and insane in Rhode Island, until his death. Famous throughout the nineteenth century, Vaucluse gradually deteriorated in the twentieth. The imposing mansion house was largely destroyed by decades of neglect. The original doorway of Vaucluse was once in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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