Last Saturday evening, 500 tuxedoed and ball-gowned guests congregated on the grounds of The Elms for the Preservation Society of Newport’s Annual Gala.
The sun was beginning to set, casting a glow much like the color of the Champagne in everyone’s glasses. Guests were merry upon seeing cousins, neighbors, and strangers in their black-tie best. Behind them stood the Horace Trumbauer–designed estate, an elegantly symmetrical structure in limestone modeled after a château in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.
It was the Preservation Society of Newport’s annual gala, a fundraiser for the very nonprofit which bought up The Elms from those thoughtless developers decades ago and has since continued to maintain it, along with 10 other estates, which all are open to the public to the delight of historians, tourists, and aesthetes alike.
For many, the evening began at a private home in the center of historic Newport, where the ocean views were just one of many things for guests to feast their eyes on. A short while after, everyone found themselves at The Elms. The assemblage included Newport’s grand dames , and the many generations that followed them, from the evening’s co-chair’s to the pretty young things just a couple of years on the scene .
Remarks—thanking the Society’s magnanimous board members and evening’s chairs—were brief, and dinner had not yet been served before partygoers got the party started. If the scene had earlier resembled something bygone, that on the dance floor was rooted firmly in the now. There was an anything-goes choreography as champagne-happy folk of all generations displayed just how thoroughly they could enjoy themselves.
Yet another change of scenery led the crew beneath a weeping beech tree on the grounds; guests traveled through the streamer-like branches and were transported to a twinkle-light-filled party. For some, the night ended here, among the whimsical foliage; others were off to the after-party hosted by MK and Octavius Prince. There, a light installation bathed revelers in neon hues, and music came from DJ Betto, who was flown in especially for the occasion.
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