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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.
The Bellevue Avenue/Casino Historic District encompasses a one-block section of Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.Although Bellevue Avenue is best known for the large number of Gilded Age mansions which line it, especially further south, this block is a coherent collection of commercial buildings at the northern end of the mansion row.
50 Kennedy Plaza: 285 (87) 20 1985 Providence Office Tallest building in Rhode Island constructed in the 1980s [15] [16] 8 Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island Headquarters: 236 (72) 14 2009 Providence
The Brenton Hotel is relatively new in Newport (it opened in July 2020) and centrally located so that you can walk to most destinations on your itinerary while in town. (That said, valet parking ...
Newport is a seaside city on Aquidneck Island in Rhode Island, United States.It is located in Narragansett Bay, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Providence, 20 miles (32 km) south of Fall River, Massachusetts, 74 miles (119 km) south of Boston, and 180 miles (290 km) northeast of New York City.
Miramar is a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) French neoclassical-style mansion on 7.8 acres (32,000 m 2) bordering Bellevue Avenue on Aquidneck Island at Newport, Rhode Island. Overlooking Rhode Island Sound , it was intended as a summer home for the George D. Widener family of Philadelphia .
The meeting house is the oldest surviving house of worship in Rhode Island. In keeping with Quaker notions of "plain style" living, the building lacks adornments like pulpits, statuary, steeples, or stained glass. It features wide-plank floors, plain benches, a balcony, a beam ceiling, and a shingle exterior. [3]
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