It was 1930.... Edith and Maude Wetmore, daughters of Governor and Senator George Peabody Wetmore, who made his fortune in the China trade, provided the present site at 18 Market Square as a memorial to their parents. A special place, here in Newport.
They commissioned architect Frederick Rhinelander King to design and supervise the construction of the building in Georgian Revival style —later listed on the National Historic Register.
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