One of Newport’s few historic mansions is on the market for $22 million

NEWPORT, R.I. – One of the few historic, but still privately-owned, Newport mansions has hit the market for $22 million.

Known as “Champ Soleil,” the 5-plus acre estate at 601 Bellevue Ave. was built in 1929 for the Drexels, the storied family of banker patriarch, Anthony J. Drexel, whose firm, Drexel Morgan & Associates, with protégé, John Pierpont Morgan, would eventually become J.P. Morgan Chase.

Taking inspiration from “La Lanterne” at Versailles, the mansion, listed on Wednesday , sits “right down in the heart of the best district of Bellevue Avenue,” said Paul Leys, co-owner of Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty, who has the listing with fellow co-owner David Huberman.

The estate sits across from Marble House — the 19th century summer retreat for the Vanderbilts —