The Elms, closed to the public since Aug. 10, will reopen later this fall with a new guest experience built around storytelling, multi-sensory elements and what the Preservation Society of Newport County describes as thoughtfully integrated enhancements.
The Preservation Society is developing the experience with Digital Kitchen, a creative studio chosen as its experience design partner in 2024 after a competitive process. People who want to be among the first inside can sign up with their email at newportmansions.org/theelms.
The Elms was built at the turn of the 20th century as the summer home of Edward Julius Berwind and his wife, Herminie, and modeled on an 18th-century French chateau. It was equipped with the latest technology of the Gilded Age and holds a collection of paintings, sculpture and tapestries, set among formal gardens, terraces, pavilions and fountains.
The Carriage House café on the grounds remains open daily from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with last seating at 4, for Preservation Society members and anyone holding a Newport Mansions house tour ticket.
