WOW.com Web Search

  1. Ads

    related to: bank newport ri

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Marble House - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_House

    Marble House, a Gilded Age mansion located at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, was built from 1888 to 1892 as a summer cottage for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt and was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Beaux Arts style. It was unparalleled in opulence for an American house when it was completed in 1892.

  3. Beechwood (Astor mansion) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beechwood_(Astor_mansion)

    Beechwood is a Gilded Age mansion and estate located at 580 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island best known for having been owned by the Astor family.Part of the Bellevue Avenue Historic District, the first version of the residence was built between 1852 and 1853 and designed in the Italianate style by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux.

  4. Touro Synagogue - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touro_Synagogue

    The Touro Synagogue or Congregation Jeshuat Israel (Hebrew: קהל קדוש ישועת ישראל) is a synagogue built in 1763 in Newport, Rhode Island.As the only surviving synagogue building in the U.S. dating to the colonial era, it is the oldest synagogue building still standing in the United States and North America.

  5. Newport Historic District (Rhode Island) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_Historic_District...

    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.

  6. Goat Island (Rhode Island) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat_Island_(Rhode_Island)

    Goat Island is a small island in Narragansett Bay and is part of the city of Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. The island is connected to the Easton's Point neighborhood via a causeway bridge. It is home to the Newport Harbor Light (1842), residences, a restaurant, event space, and hotel.

  7. Fairholme (Newport, Rhode Island) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairholme_(Newport,_Rhode...

    Fairholme is a Tudor Revival historic mansion in Newport, Rhode Island designed by Frank Furness and built by Furness & Hewitt in 1874–1875 for Fairman Rogers. [1] [2]

  8. Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Burying_Ground_and...

    God's Little Acre. The Common Burial Ground was established in 1640 on land given to city of Newport by John Clarke. [2] It features what is probably the largest number of colonial era headstones in a single cemetery, including the largest number of colonial African American headstones in the United States.

  9. Matthew Perry Monument (Newport, Rhode Island) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Perry_Monument...

    Matthew Perry Monument is a statue commemorating Commodore Matthew C. Perry.The statue is situated in Touro Park facing Bellevue Avenue in the heart of Newport, Rhode Island and was designed by John Quincy Adams Ward in 1869. [1]

  1. Ads

    related to: bank newport ri