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In its report on housing for the Rhode Island Foundation last year, Boston Consulting Group calculated that Rhode Island was 50th in the nation for building new housing units per capita in 2021.
The Newport Daily News is a six-day daily newspaper serving Newport County, Rhode Island. It publishes in the mornings on weekdays (Monday through Friday) and in the morning on Saturdays. The Daily News was the state's largest family-owned newspaper until it was purchased by Gatehouse Media in 2017.
Jewish Rhode Island, published monthly and owned by the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island. Based in Providence, but covering the entire state. Mercury, published monthly and owned by Gatehouse Media. An alternative weekly-style paper covering Rhode Island arts, entertainment and food in Newport and Middletown.
Newport County was constituted on June 22, 1703, as one of the two original counties of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. As originally established, Newport County consisted of four towns: Portsmouth, Newport, Jamestown, and New Shoreham. In 1746–47, two towns, Little Compton and Tiverton, were acquired from Massachusetts.
Kristin Hersh, musician, vocalist for Rhode Island–based band Throwing Muses, 50 Foot Wave; solo artist; Antony Kloman, painter; Jane Pickens Langley, singer, entertainer and philanthropist; Elaine Lorillard, summer resident, founder of Newport Jazz Festival; Perle Mesta, socialite, political hostess and U.S. Ambassador to Luxembourg
The commission was given to McKim, Mead, and White in 1898, and the New York branch of Jules Allard and Sons were engaged as interior decorators. Construction started in 1899, but the sharp winter slowed construction; Mrs. Oelrichs' sister had married William K. Vanderbilt II that winter season, and the house was required for parties in the following Newport season; the eager Mrs. Oelrichs ...
The Bellevue Avenue Historic District is located along and around Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.Its property is almost exclusively residential, including many of the Gilded Age mansions built as summer retreats around the turn of the 20th century by the extremely wealthy, including the Vanderbilt and Astor families.
People from Newport, Rhode Island (1 C, 103 P) P. ... Pages in category "People from Newport County, Rhode Island" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of ...