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  2. Newport Historical Society - Wikipedia

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    The Newport Historical Society is a historical society in Newport, Rhode Island that was chartered in 1854 to collect and preserve books, manuscripts, and objects pertaining to Newport's history. History of the society

  3. Ocean Drive Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Ocean Drive Historic District is a historic district that covers the long street of the same name along the southern shore of Newport, Rhode Island, United States.It was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1976, in recognition for its distinctive landscape (in part the work of Frederick Law Olmsted) and architecture, which is less formal and generally not as ostentatious as ...

  4. Redwood Library and Athenaeum - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. 8 jaw-dropping facts about the famous Breakers mansion in Newport

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    Newport, Rhode Island is a charming New England city characterized by rich history, quaint shops and restaurants and yacht-filled harbors. Amongst museums, bars and plenty of historical landmarks ...

  6. Timeline of Newport, Rhode Island - Wikipedia

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    Rhode Island imprints: a list of books, pamphlets, newspapers and broadsides printed at Newport, Providence, Warren, Rhode Island, between 1727 and 1800, Providence: Rhode Island Historical Society, 1915, OL 7091649M; A guide to Newport, Rhode Island, Newport: Gabriel Weis, 1916, OL 14010639M

  7. Why Newport, Rhode Island Is the Cozy (& Family-Friendly ...

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    We squeezed in a jaunt along the Cliff Walk, a three-and-a-half-mile stretch that places the best of the Gilded Age mansions on one side, panoramic ocean views on the other.

  8. Take a look inside Rosecliff, a 30-room mansion built for a ...

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    Rosecliff in Newport, Rhode Island, was built for a silver heiress during the Gilded Age. It measures 28,800 square feet and features 30 rooms, including Newport's largest ballroom.

  9. National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport ...

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    Location of Newport County in Rhode Island. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...