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Chateau-Nooga (1880-81) Architect: George Brown Post Style: Queen Anne Revival • Christopher Columbus Baldwin, President of the Louisville and Nash-ville Railroad Company, commissioned architect George Brown Post to build his Newport cottage • Post also designed the New York Stock Exchange and a 156-room town-house for Cornelius Vanderbilt 11 in New York City • in 1886, Chateau-Nooga was featured in L'Architecture Americaine by Andre Daly fits et C..se It was one of two build-ings from Rhode Island included its the volume, which highlighted contemp-ory American architecture. • The house is a private residence.