Newport's 'Ocean View' mansion sold for $16M - Providence Business News pbn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pbn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Some historical figures who have fallen through the cracks have some amazing tales to tell. The story here revolves around a place with the rather fanciful name of Dreamland. It was an amusement park opened at Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City, in 1904, existing side by side with two other large amusement parks called Steeplechase Park and Luna Park. It was started by the real estate tycoon and politician William H. Reynolds and it was in every way designed to overshadow the other nearby amusement parks, doing everything bigger and better with no expense spared, featuring elegant architecture, pristine white towers, and various high-class venues for all manner of attractions and exhibitions, including theater shows, an imitation Venetian canal, a train that ran through a Swiss alpine landscape, a “human zoo” that included a whole village of Filipino tribesmen, another village full of hundreds of dwarfs called the “Lilliputian Village,” the Dreamland tower, which was illum
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