Architect Horace Trumbauer modeled this graceful 48-room French neoclassical mansion and its grounds after the Chateau d'Asnieres near Paris. The Elms was built for Edward Julius Berwind, a bituminous-coal baron, in 1901 and was one of the first in Newport, Rhode Istand, to be fully electrified. At the foot of the 10-acre estate is a spectacular sunken garden. The Elms provides a great self-guided tour of the Berwind family's opulent, french inspired mansion and gardens.
