Oceanfront Newport Mansion
With Architectural Pedigree

What: Eight bedrooms, 13 full bathrooms in 14,400 square feet on five acres

Where: Newport, R.I.

Amenities: Theater, billiard room, library, wine cellar, staff accommodations, 15 fireplaces, gourmet kitchen with a butler’s pantry, central air conditioning, elevator

Asking Price: $12.75 million

Opening Bid*: $12.1 million

Listing Agents: Melanie Delman, Lila Delman Real Estate, 401-789-6666 Ext 108

Due Diligence: Physician David Keefe and his wife, Candy, bought this granite-and-shingle estate about seven years ago. Perched on a cliff some 75 feet above the sea, it was built in 1891 on a design by Richard Morris Hunt, the architect of several Newport mansions including the Vanderbilt family's The Breakers (1892 version) and Marble House. Frederick Law Olmsted, a designer of New York's Central Park, provided the original landscape design, much of which the couple has restored. The property sat unused for decades before the Keefes gutted and restored all of the home's 22 rooms and updated plumbing, electrical, heating and cooling systems. A large living room has a cathedral ceiling, a baronial fireplace, an orchestra balcony and three sets of French doors that open to an 80-foot ocean-front porch. All of the rooms have ocean views, and most of the bedrooms are en suite. An 1,800-square-foot master bedroom has dual marble baths and an adjoining study, with mahogany built-ins and a wet bar.

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