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Aerial of Newport Harbor
An aerial view of Newport Harbor and waterfront in Newport, Rhode Island. Long Wharf, to the right, and Goat Island, the slender island just offshore, are located on the western side of island. The shipping industry has a long history in Newport,…
Newport Bridge across Goat Island
Here is a view of the Newport Bridge from across Goat Island. The bridge is not very visible. From the north end, the lighthouse is visible.
Newport Bridge
Beginning in the late 1940s, efforts towards the construction of a bridge linking Jamestown to Newport began. From the 1940s on, at least 32 engineering studies were made for possible location of a suspension or cantilever bridge, a tunnel or…
Newport- The Breakers
The Breakers, an 11-acre estate on Ochre Point overlooking the ocean in Newport, Rhode Island, epitomizes the wealth and extravagance of America's Gilded Age. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Cornelius Vanderbilt, the grandson of Commodore C.…
The Breakers- Newport, RI
The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America. Cornelius Vanderbilt II purchased a wooden house called The Breakers in Newport. In…
East Providence & Barrington (Aerial)
East Providence is a long, narrow, zigzag-shaped town squeezed between the Seekonk River to the west and, to the east, the Ten Mile and Runnins rivers, Barrington has the highest per capita income of any town in the state. The architectural pilgrim…
Aerial View of Newport
Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island. It is about 30 miles south of Providence. Known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions, it is the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station…
Rosecliff Mansion
On the approach to the entry arch at the south end, the first story, wrapped in its cadence of piers, columns, and carved swag, dominates the facade. The H shaped plan frames a front garden and a seaward-facing terrace with projecting wings. The…
Rosecliff
Rosecliff, built 1898-1902, is one of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, now open to the public as a museum.
The house has also been known as the Herman Oelrichs House or the J. Edgar Monroe House.
It was built by Theresa Fair…
Rosecliff Garden
Designed by McKim, Meade and White, particularly Stanford White, Rosecliff was built strictly as a summer residence for Tessie and Herman Oelrich. The money used to finance the construction of Rosecliff came from her father, James Graham Fair, one…
Touro Synagogue, Newport
The building, the oldest Synagogue in the US, is angled to the street on a rise so that the ark inside faces Jerusalem. Only the elegance of the entrance porch, with arching inside a pedimented Ionic enclosure and the same generous spread of stairs…
Newport: Commodore Matthew Perry Public Sculpture
“On March 31 1854 representatives of Japan and the United States signed a historic treaty. A United States naval officer, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry [April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858], negotiated tirelessly for several months with Japanese…
Old Stone Mill in Touro Park
Sometimes speculated as the the work of Vikings, built around the year 1000, or the Chinese in 1426-28, the stone mill has fascinated historians for centuries. Another attribution is to the Portuguese explorer Miguel Corte-Real built it and yet…
Newport- Salve Regina poorly attended grounds but lovely building
Located in Newport, RI, the school was founded by the Sisters of Mercy in 1947. Salve is a coeducational private university. The university has one of the most unique campuses around and it encompasses more than 80 acres. Along with it’s large…
Newport- Salve Regina University Entrance- North of Breakers on Cliff Walk
Salve Regina University is a university in Newport, Rhode Island. Founded by the Sisters of Mercy, the university is a co-educational, private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of Rhode Island in 1934. In 1947 the university acquired…
Newport Harbor Lighthouse- Goat Island
The Newport Harbor Lighthouse may not be the best-known light in Newport Harbor, but its place in history is unchallenged as the first beacon to guide mariners into the bustling Newport of the early 1800s. The lighthouse stands on Goat Island, so…
Augustus Lucas House
Two stairs in different styles, one behind the other, confirm the back-to-front enlargement of this house, as does the anomaly of two chimneys. Boxed stairs on three short runs with scroll-cut balusters indicate that the older section was in the…
Newport- Touro Synagogue
For over two centuries, the small synagogue standing on top of a hill on a quiet street in the New England seaport community of Newport, R.I., has occupied a unique place in American history -- not only as a part of the American Jewish experience…
The Newport Skyline from Goat Island
Newport’s wharfs, from Long Wharf to Perry Mill evolved, from the late 1960s through the 1980s into a hectic carnival of boutiques, eateries, and hotels. A deliberately nondescript wharf-like vernacular has been cultivated even for outsized hotels,…
Sheraton Motor Inn Goat Island - Newport
Goat Island is a small island in Narragansett Bay and is part of the city of Newport, Rhode Island. The island is connected to the Easton's Point neighborhood via a causeway bridge. Goat Island is home to the Newport Harbor Light (1842). Native…
Newport- Breakers side entrance with the “cottage” visible (Victorian Architecture)
The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on Ochre Point Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. It is a National Historic Landmark, a contributing property to the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, and is owned and operated by the Preservation Society…