ANTIQUES

Cliffside Inn is widely noted for it's diversity of unique and interesting guest rooms--no two are alike. All of the inn's 16 guest quarters have at least one fireplace and some suites have two or three. Fourteen rooms have whirlpool baths, two have steam baths and one has a rare Victorian Birdcage shower.

Period antiques--including many rare and unusual pieces--are found throughout the Inn. The Robb Report called Cliffside Inn "a seamless blend of fine period Victorian antiques with modern luxury and amenities".

The Inn boasts an unusually fine collection of antique beds from the Victorian Era.

ART

On the walls of all rooms, public spaces and hallways throughout Cliffside Inn, visitors find an astonishing collection of more than 100 artworks that have two unusual things in common. First, they are all the work of the same artist--former Cliffside owner and legendary Newport and Philadelphia artist Beatrice Turner. Second, most of them are of the same subject--though no two of them are exactly alike. Quite astonishingly, the subject of most of the paintings is that same former Cliffside owner and artist Beatrice Turner. She was both the painter and the model in most of them.

Little was known of this beautiful and wealthy--but very private woman-- while she was alive. But after her death in 1948, when the executors of her estate opened the doors of her Newport summer home they found an extraordinary surprise. There, piles high in every room and spilling out of every closet and pantry were some 3,000 paintings--many of them life-size--and more than 1,000 were, remarkably, self-portraits. All by Beatrice Turner.

The Turner story has since been told in many newspapers, magazines, on television and in the book Beatrice: A Legendary Woman of Mystery. Her life story still poses many seemingly unanswerable questions and she remains very much a woman of mystery. Almost all of the Turner paintings were destroyed in a fire by the executors of her estate. Less than 100 original works are known to still exist. Cliffside Inn owns a small collection of Turner originals. The Inn has sought out and had reproduced every other known Turner painting still in existence from other collections and owners.