Rough Point

Not at all like most Newport beneficiaries, Doris Duke neither took after the styles and patterns of the day, nor attempted to set them. The workmanship and collectibles she gathered for her late spring home, a 1887 house worked by a Vanderbilt and which she acquired - alongside a sizable fortune - at 12 years old, mirror her own taste and a recognizing authority's eye.

She picked them to live with and appreciate, and on her demise, she willed Rough Point and its substance to wind up a historical center open to people in general. Visiting the house with the very much educated guide will abandon you with the inclination that you had met Doris Duke.