HISTORIC NEWPORT . 1934 Architecture Pen Craig (#01 in series) - Newport Rhode Island America 15Feb2021 sRGB web

            This image of Pen Craig is from Edith Wharton's auto-biography ' A Backward Glance' published in 1934 ... 

now Out of Copyright ... so best efforts at some TLC, to reprocess and upload this rare image of the now-demolished home.

Childhood home of Edith (Jones) Wharton at 100 Harrison Ave, Newport Rhode Island America.  It was built in the 1860's by her father George Frederick Jones.

Sold about 1898ish to the Hamilton Fish Websters, who gave it a Tudor-style makeover seen above, it was demolished in 1956.

Edith's fathers' family was wealthy from real estate dealings in New York and the idiom "keeping up with the Joneses" was about her family. Born in 1862, Edith lived here until she was 21 and was married.

Edith Jones married Edward Wharton (of Boston) and they moved across the street to a cottage owned by her mother aka Pen Craig Cottage, which still exists at 96 Harrison Ave.

In 1893, the Wharton's purchased Land's End (at 42 Ledge Road, Newport) and set about creating gardens & improving the exterior and interior of their new home.  Parts of Edith's efforts can been seen at 44 Ledge Road (earlier images in this series) which was the Cottage / Stables / Greenshouse to the 42 Ledge Road home.

The Wharton's hired a young Boston architect, Ogden Codman, and they shared a vision of simplified interiors, which they applied to Land's End (SE tip of Newport RI).

Edith & Ogden Codman co-wrote HER FIRST BOOK ever, titled THE DECORATION OF HOUSES in 1897, which became an immediate best-seller on both sides of the pond.  40 years later it still produced monthly royalties.

In 1904ish, the Wharton's sold Land's End and built The Mount in Lenox, Massachusetts, America (in 1902) which still thrives today as a heritage architecture attraction. Edith designed the home using the principles of THE DECORATION OF HOUSES. The Wharton's sold The Mount in 1911.

The above image is at least 87 years old as of the Feb2021 upload date.

Taken on: March 14, 2022

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