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George Champlin Mason (1820-1894) was born and raised in Newport, RI to a prominent local family. As a young man, Mason traveled through Europe, where he studied architecture and drawing. He started his architectural firm in 1860. Mason's first commission was Starboard House, a large stone summer cottage located on Narragansett Avenue in Newport. Mason's interests were not limited to architectural design. Before he launched his career as an architect, he was, at the age of 29 named editor of the Newport Advertiser and was a correspondent for the Providence Journal and the New York Evening Post. Even during the height of his career as an architect he wrote several books such as Newport and its Cottages (1875) and The Old House Altered (1878). In 1854 he was one of several prominent Newporters that helped to found the Newport Historical Society. Mason was also a trustee of Newport Hospital from its foundation in 1873 and was a director of the Redwood Library (America's oldest lending... | |
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