Young Building, home of Story in the Public Square

Seth C. Bradford (1801-1878)Yarnall, James L. ''Newport Through its Architecture''. 2005. was an American

architect An architect is a person who plans, designs and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...

from

Newport, Rhode Island Newport is an American seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island. It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately southeast of Providence, south of Fall River, Massachusetts, south of Boston, and northeast of New ...

. During his career, Bradford was known as a designer and builder of

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-style residences for Newport summer residents. At least three of his designs utilized a Gothic Revival vocabulary, most blatantly Rockry Hall (1847–48), modeled on Design III from

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's pattern book ''Cottage Residences'' (1842). Today, he is most remembered for his design of

Chateau-sur-Mer Chateau-sur-Mer is one of the first grand Bellevue Avenue mansions of the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island. Located at 474 Bellevue Avenue, it is now owned by the Preservation Society of Newport County and is open to the public as a museum. ...

, the Wetmore family residence on Bellevue Avenue. In addition to being Bellevue Avenue's first great mansion, it is also credited with introducing the Second Empire style to Newport (although the original mansard has since been replaced). His popularity in Newport waned in the late 1850s, as other architects like

Thomas A. Tefft Thomas Alexander Tefft (August 2, 1826 – December 12, 1859) was an American architect, from Providence, Rhode Island. Tefft, one of the nation's first professionally trained architects, is considered a master of ''Rundbogenstil'' and a leadi ...

Richard Morris Hunt Richard Morris Hunt (October 31, 1827 – July 31, 1895) was an American architect of the nineteenth century and an eminent figure in the history of American architecture. He helped shape New York City with his designs for the 1902 entrance fa� ...

, and George C. Mason began to exert their influence.

Architectural works

* 1847 - Charles Lyman Cottage, 66 Webster St, Newport, Rhode Island * 1847 - Rockry Hall (Albert Sumner Cottage), 425 Bellevue Ave, Newport, Rhode Island * 1849 - James H. Van Alen Cottage, 424 Bellevue Ave, Newport, Rhode Island ** Burned in 1851 * 1850 - Belair (H. Allan Wright Cottage), 50 Old Beach Rd, Newport, Rhode Island ** Remodeled by

Dudley Newton Dudley Newton (1845-1907) was an American architect from Newport, Rhode Island. Newton was born in Newport in 1845. After an education in the Newport public schools until the age of 15, Newton began to study with George C. Mason, Newport' ...

in 1870''Kay Street - Catherine Street - Old Beach Road Historic District NRHP Nomination''. 1973. * 1850 - Ralph S. Izard Cottage, 10 Pell St, Newport, Rhode Island * 1851 - Mary A. D. Bruen Cottage, 6 Howe Ave, Newport, Rhode Island ** Remodeled by R. M. Hunt in 1870-72 * 1851 -

( William S. Wetmore House), 424 Bellevue Ave, Newport, Rhode Island * 1852 - Fairlawn (Andrew Ritchie Cottage), Bellevue & Ruggles Aves, Newport, Rhode Island * 1852 - Robert M. Mason Cottage, 180 Rhode Island Ave, Newport, Rhode Island ** Remodeled by

H. H. Richardson Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque. Along with Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, Richardson is one ...

in 1883. Burned 1899. * 1855 - Porter Villa (James C. Porter Cottage), 23 Greenough Pl, Newport, Rhode Island * 1859 - Gatehouse, Beach Cliffe (Oliver DeLancey Kane Estate), 77 Memorial Blvd, Newport, Rhode IslandMiller, Paul F. ''Lost Newport: Vanished Cottages of the Resort Era''. 2008.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bradford, Seth C. 1801 births 1878 deaths Architects from Newport, Rhode Island 19th-century American architects