Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada is an architectural style known as "Second Empire, most popular between 1865 and 1900, as it was practiced in the United States and Canada. In the United States, where the leadings architects working in the style were Alfred B. Mullett and John McArthur, Jr., buildings in the style were often closer to their 17th-century roots than examples of the style found in Europe. Chateau-sur-Mer, on Bellevue Avenue, in Newport, Rhode Island, was remodeled and redecorated during the gilded age of the 1870s by Richard Morris Hunt in this style.