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Map of Naval Station Newport in 1966. Graduation of the June 23rd 2005 class of the U.S. Navy STA-21 Commissioning Program which was held at NAVSTA Newport.. Naval Station Newport (NAVSTA Newport) is a United States Navy base located in the city of Newport and the town of Middletown, Rhode Island.
By 1935, the Rhode Island State Library was administering state aid for community libraries and library extension service. [4] The Department of State Library Services (now OLIS) was founded in 1964 as a result of legislation initiated by the Rhode Island Library Association , taking over some of these roles from the State Library.
Created with the other original districts in 1903, the Second Naval District was the smallest district. It was headquartered in Newport, Rhode Island, and covered only Rhode Island and adjacent waters. It was disestablished and its areas incorporated into the First and Third Districts on March 15, 1919, after the end of World War I.
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.
It passed by a majority in all of Rhode Island's 39 cities and towns, but in a few, it barely squeaked by. In most cities, the housing bond won by a landslide, at 88% in Providence, 79.7% in ...
The Newport Public Library was chartered 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]
Rhode Island has chosen New York University researchers to study whether to create a state housing development arm and, if so, how best to do it.. NYU's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban ...
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 ...