While you're at The Elms, take a tour of the public and guest rooms, too. The gilded ballroom (even the piano is gold), coffered ceilings, medieval tapestries, Venetian paintings, Louis XV furniture, panels from China – a body could get used to this.

Then have lunch at the carriage house (pictured here): It's probably the only chance most of us will ever get to sit down and enjoy a meal at a Gilded Age Newport estate.

Read more in Tripatini contributor Ed Wetschler´s post A Tour of the Hidden Servants´Quarters at The Elms in Newport, Rhode Island.