The Harold Brown Villa
Built by Harold Brown and his wife Georgette Wetmore as a summer estate. Given no
formal name, unlike most of the cottages, it was a treasured family jewel. It was left to Mrs Brown's
niece Eileen Slocum, who was considered the grande dame of Newport and the Republican Party and died in 2008. It is the only house on Bellevue Avenue still in the hands of the family.

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