The museum is housed in an early
twentieth century mansion, a modern 1970s era building and a sleek, contemporary structure of steel and glass.
Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the
twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family
mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts», suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham, married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England.