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Newport, Rhode Island
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Belcourt Castle on Bellevue Avenue is a 60-room Gilded Age mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt and completed in the 1890s for Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, and it is now owned by Alex and Ani founder Carolyn Rafaelian. Discover Newport and Roadside America retell its ghost stories: two antique chairs said to throw out anyone who sits in them, a suit of armor whose helmet is said to turn during tours, and a robed figure seen beside a bed that walked through a wall that turned out to have been an old doorway. The house offers regular and candlelight tours.
Open for guided tours (about 50 minutes to an hour), including candlelight tours; check belcourt.com for dates and tickets.
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