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The Kay Street–Catherine Street–Old Beach Road Historic District is a historic district in Newport, Rhode Island.The area is located north of Newport's well-known Bellevue Avenue, and encompasses an area that was developed residentially between about 1830 and 1890, for the most part before the Gilded Age mansions were built further south.
The Newport Historic District is a historic district that covers 250 acres (100 ha) in the center of Newport in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It was designated a National Historic Landmark (NHL) in 1968 due to its extensive and well-preserved assortment of intact colonial buildings dating from the early and mid-18th century.
Bailey's Beach after Hurricane Sandy in 2012 with "Rejects' Beach" in the foreground Virginia "Birdie" Graham Fair, wading in the water at Bailey's Beach. Bailey's Beach (officially named as and owned by the Spouting Rock Beach Association) is a private beach and club in Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
Chateau-sur-Mer was one of the few Newport "cottages" built as a year-round residence, unlike most of the others built during this period, because the Wetmores were a New England family who made Newport their home. George was very active in Rhode Island politics during the late 19th century and a lifelong Republican.
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 Newport Cliff Walk is considered one of the top attractions in Newport, Rhode Island, in the United States. [1] It is a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) public access walkway that borders the shore line. It has been designated a National Recreation Trail , the first in New England.
Though John F. Kennedy was a native of Massachusetts, he spent quite a bit of time in Rhode Island, including several key moments of his life. At the 60th anniversary of his death by an assassin's ...
It is a private beach, but also open to the public. [1] The beach is located between Bailey's Beach and Hazard's Beach. Gooseberry itself is nestled in a sort of cove, protected by a spit of land and several large boulders roughly 75 metres offshore at high tide, no more than 50 at low tide.