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The Redwood Library and Athenaeum is a subscription library, museum, rare book repository and research center founded in 1747, and located at 50 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The building, designed by Peter Harrison and completed in March 1750, was the first purposely built library in the United States, and the oldest neo-Classical ...
The Newport Public Library was charted by the State of Rhode Island in 1869. The People’s Free Library opened their doors on May 4, 1870 with the combined collections of the Newport Free Library, Townsend’s curated collection, and the services of the Newport Free Library’s Librarian Elma M. Dame, as the People’s Free Library. [1]
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Newport Library may refer to: Newport Central Library, city of Newport, South Wales, United Kingdom; Newport Public Library, Newport, Rhode Island, United States;
A painting by British artist George Stubbs is expected to sell for up to £2 million ($2.5 million) in London next week, as it comes to auction for the first time in more than 50 years.. The 18th ...
This weekend, an episode of the Cooking Channel's "Carnival Eats" will feature the annual Newport Oyster & Chowder Festival. The episode will air on Sunday, Sept. 15, at 9 p.m. EST.
The Newport Reading Room was founded in 1854 by William Shepard Wetmore, a wealthy China trade merchant, and several other notable Newporters, including Yankee traders and Southern planters who summered in Newport. [2] Several of the managing stock holders were full-time Rhode Island residents while others were summer residents. [3]
The Portsmouth Tiverton Rotary Club hosts the 66th Annual Newport Motor Car Festival, the longest-running event of its kind in Rhode Island, at Portsmouth Abbey on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at ...