| Gilbert Stuart, Francis Malbone
and His Brother Saunders,
about 1774, oil on canvas, 36 x 44 in. (91.4 x 111.8 cm), Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, Gift of Francis Malbone Blodget, Jr., and Gift of a Friend of
the Department of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture and Emily L. Ainsley
Fund, 1991.436. Reproduced with permission. © 2000 Museum of Fine Arts,
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The Malbone Trust the
Owner of the Malbone Estate, a National Historic Landmark Gothic-style
Castle is the oldest privately owned estate in Newport, situated on 17
acres Malbone once served as the country residence of Colonel Godfrey
Malbone (1796-1862) of Virginia and Connecticut. Colonel Malbone made his
fortune as a shipping merchant. Malbone had the foremost gardens in North
America in the 1700 and 1800's. During his historic visit to Newport's
Tuoro Synagogue in 1766, President George Washington dined at Malbone. In the course of a gala dinner party, a
chimney fire reduced the house to a pile of sandstone rubble in 1766. In
1848 the house was rebuilt as the summer “villa in the country” for Mr.
& Mrs. Jonathan Prescott Hall. Mr. Hall was an eminent New York Lawyer
and descendent of two signors of the Declaration of Independence. In 1978
the L.G. Morris family descendents of Malbone bequeathed this landmark to
the Preservation Society of Newport County. The J. H. Leach Family now
enjoys the same distinction 150 years later of inhabiting this private
paradise.
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