historic houses Archives - Just Go Places Culinary and Cultural Travel Fri, 29 Jan 2021 14:20:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Two Newport Mansion Tours To Take With Kids: Rough Point Mansion and The Breakers https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/newport-mansion-tours/ Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:04:48 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=12697 To paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald, the super rich are different from you and me — they keep camels in the conservatory and have playhouses for their children that are bigger than the average American home. There really were live camels kept at the Doris Duke house, Rough Point in Newport Rhode Island.  Born as the...

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]]> The Cats That Usurped Hemingway’s Key West House https://www.justgoplacesblog.com/hemingways-key-west-house/ Sat, 05 Mar 2016 00:52:43 +0000 https://justgoplace1.wpengine.com/?p=11573 I feel it is deeply unfair when a woman has an unabashed love of cats she’s known as a crazy cat lady.  When a man, however, is a cat lover no one comes up with such a pejorative nickname.  Relatives of mine (ahem! my brother) are crazy about their cats. He’s got three cats who...

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