Paradise Ave has begun to change. It's the Southwestern portion of Aquidneck Island near to surfer's end beach. Some remember Indian Ave was experienced one of the last big changes with construction projects underway on both side of the street.
This past Thanksgiving found change when a 1920's cape taken down to make room for an exciting new home. Here below is the bull dozer at work. In the distance, 103 feet above sea level one may see a three story, ~3500 square foot Rhode Island home already well underway toward its March 2012 completion target.
...house on the Gray Ledge takes shape with interesting high windows a curving, South facing deck. Ocean views from all three levels,
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| ...another view looking to the East |
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| Traditional home design dating from the 1840's sits to the North up the Paradise. 2012 Winter has not come this year as it was captured here in 2003. |
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| 532 Paradise before changing to a newer cedar roof - viewed through the old privet hedge. |
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| New roof is lighter. But with Rhode Island's wet weather, it has now darkened |
Some may recall America's Hudson River Painters found Paradise Valley (Avenue) an attractive place to paint in the 1800s.
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| Changing the location, repositioning, plus weeks of renovating to this old building we found at 532 Paradise. This was the a house, possibly rented at one time by John LaFarge - who became a famous painter. It was his good fortune to married a Vanderbilt Family member. His wife may have spent her summers in one of Bellevue Avenue Newport Mansion. |
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John LaFarge Studio as it is sometimes called was used by the painter for a few years. He is one of those Hudson River painters . Some of his colorful stain-glass windows were found in a basement warehouse in Fall River and put back on display inside Salve Regina University's Our Lady of Mercy Chapel.
NEXT ... let's take a tour inside this old painter's place to see what changes have taken place.
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