Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Meet John Nicholas Brown II, once dubbed “the richest baby in the world.” In this episode of This House, Ken tours Harbour Court in Newport, Rhode Island, a Gilded Age mansion designed by Ralph Adams Cram with gardens by the Olmsted Brothers, and traces how a three‑month‑old heir grew into a philanthropist, WWII Monuments Man, and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy for Air.

Location: Newport, RI

Public Domain Photos from: Library of Congress,
CC BY 2.0 Photos from: Flickr User: St. George's School
CC BY-SA 4.0 Photos from: Wikipedia User: Don Ramey Logan
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Music from Epidemic Sound