Titanic Mansion for Sale
The 1913 Horace Trumbauer mansion built for Titanic survivor Eleanor Widener as a summer residence in Newport is for sale for $25 million. Widener, who lost both a husband and a son in the sinking, continued to summer in Newport for many years. Architect Trumbauer, who designed other Newport mansions, including fellow Bellvue Avenue mansions The Elms and Clarendon Court (former home of Sunny and Klaus von Bülow), cast Miramar in the classic 18th-century French style. Trumbauer had a long and prosperous relationship with the Philadelphia-based Wideners, and designed many structures for them, including Harvard's Widener Library, which Eleanor Widener commissioned in memory of her bibliophile son Harry, a student at the university. Miramar, which sits on the ocean's shore, boasts 12 bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a library, a conservatory, and 30,000 square feet of living space.