Newport Casino

41.482222222222 - 71.3075Koordinaten: 41 ° 28 ' 56 "N, 71 ° 18' 27 " W

The Newport Casino is a building in the seaside resort of Newport in Rhode Iceland at the North American east coast. It was built in 1880 and from 1881 to 1914 hosted the American Tennis Championships (now the U.S. Open). Since 1954, it houses the Museum Tennis International Tennis Hall of Fame. In 1987 it was recorded as being particularly worthy of protection building in the list of National Historic Landmarks.

Contrary to the name, there never was a casino. Rather casino called here an exclusive clubhouse for members of the nobility.

History

The construction of the building goes back to the New York newspaper publisher James Gordon Bennett, who was in Newport in the summer regular guest. The occasion was a bet between him and the British cavalry officer Captain Henry August Candy in the summer of 1879, after Candy was with his horse on the porch of Newport's most important to date Gentlemen's Club, the Newport Reading Room, ride. Candy won the bet and even rode it into the club. When Candy was then occupied by ban Reading Room, his friend Bennett decided to start their own clubs.

In October 1879, he acquired a property at Bellevue Avenue and commissioned the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White with the construction. Work began on 8 January 1880. In July, the three-story building was completed. Inside, several lounges, a pool and a reading room, a real- tennis hall, a theater and ballroom as well as many accommodation rooms for guests have been established. In the park behind the casino was placed on three lawn tennis courts.

The casino quickly established himself as a meeting place for the holiday guests in Newport, including the then wealthiest families in the United States as the Vanderbilts and Astors the. To his popularity contributed significantly to the American Tennis Championships, which were held in 1881 from late August to early September at the tennis courts in the park. Once the site for the championships was too small and was moved to New York in 1915, this was the casino an annual invitational tournament, the Newport Casino Invitational discharged. 1921 was the tennis court venue of a meeting of the Davis Cup. Until the 1920s, the casino was popular meeting of the American high society. After that, the importance of Newport, which was during the Gilded Age as Queen of Resorts ( "Queen of the Seaside Resorts " ), and its casinos took off.

Towards the end of the 1930s the fabric of the casinos was greatly affected due to the lack renovations. Even greater damage caused by a fire on 18 April 1953 at the north wing of the now barely -use building. A real estate company then offered to buy the casino and proposed its demolition. However, management of the club under the leadership of James Van Alen decided against it and decided on the reconstruction and the establishment of a tennis museum. In 1954, the International Tennis Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1986 was recognized by the International Tennis Federation and is known worldwide today. The Newport Casino Invitational Tennis Tournament was set in 1967. In 1987, the building was added to the memorial list of National Historic Landmarks.

Next to the tennis museum, the casino is now home to numerous music festivals and concerts. Since 1976 will be held on the tennis courts every year in July, the Hall of Fame Tennis Championships, the only grass tournament of the ATP Tour in North America. The theater closed in 1980 has since been renovated for $ 5.2 million and in 2010 reopened the 130 - year anniversary of the casinos. In real tennis hall, one of the very few in North America, national and international championships are held.

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