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Today, the lighthouse is a museum and event rental space. The museum is open daily from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the summer, with the option to climb to the top of the tower on select days.
Naval battle off Tatamagouche - Cannons from Captain Daniel Fones' ship Tartar, Newport Historical Society Sabbatarian Meeting House, built in 1729 by Richard Munday (rear Newport Historical Society building today), now encased in brick front Newport Historical Society library building today The Old Brick Market building currently houses the society's Museum of Newport History
The Museum of Newport History is a history museum in the Old Brick Market building in the heart of Newport, Rhode Island, United States.It is owned and operated by the Newport Historical Society at 127 Thames Street on Washington Square.
Rhode Island History; Rhode Island Naval History; History of Rhode Island (1853; full text online) State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations at the end of the century by Edward Field (ed.). History of the state, published in 1902. (Full text available online.) 1663 charter Archived 2010-11-26 at the Wayback Machine; Indian Place Names
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 ...
Rhode Island School of Design Museum: Providence Providence Art Collection includes art from Egypt, Asia, Africa, ancient Greece and Rome, Europe, and the Americas, decorative arts, costumes and textiles Rhode Island Radio Museum North Providence Providence Historic Technology Private Collection of Radio and Wireless Equipment and Parts ...
The building is still owned by the state, but managed as a museum by the Newport Historical Society. Besides its political and architectural importance, the building was the site of many important Revolutionary events in Rhode Island. George Washington [2] and Dwight Eisenhower have both been guests at the building.
The Society publishes its journal Rhode Island History in either two or three issues annually covering various aspects of Rhode Island history from pre-colonial to recent. [ 4 ] The Society’s most noteworthy recent advances include its first on-line collection access catalog [ 5 ] and the first major restoration of the historic John Brown ...