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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWRN_rosecliff-its-neighbors-fading-glamour-modern-revival_Newport-RI.html
The 1940s brought enormous change to houses on this block of Bellevue Avenue as Gilded Age glamour faded due to demolitions, fire, and acquisition of many properties for use by schools. Increasing income and real estate taxes and a changing lifest…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWRG_rough-point-its-neighbors-preserved-houses_Newport-RI.html
This part of Bellevue Avenue reflects the architectural variety of 19th century Newport houses, from the Gothic Revival and Second Empire French villas of the early 1850s to the Stick Style cottages of the 1870s and the Beaux Arts Classical mansio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWR6_touro-synagogue_Newport-RI.html
The results of the religious toleration upon which Newport was founded are nowhere more evident than in the houses of worship clustered within a few hundred feet of this location: Touro Synagogue, the Seventh Day Baptist Meeting House, the United …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWQI_the-colony-house_Newport-RI.html
Because of its commitment to religious toleration, Newport had no established church during the colonial period. There was no Puritan meeting house on the town square as was the norm elsewhere in New England. Instead, the Colony House and the Bric…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWQ7_washington-square_Newport-RI.html
Washington Square, originally called the Mall and later the Parade, is ringed by buildings constructed over two centuries. The Square reflects Newport's transformation from a rudimentary outpost to one of the five major trading posts in colonial N…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOZ_perry_Newport-RI.html
[ Back of Monument : ] "We have met the enemyand they are ours" Sept. 10th, 1813.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWOX_great-friends-meeting-house_Newport-RI.html
In 1639, Helen and Nicholas Easton, John Clarke, William Coddington and others left Portsmouth, the settlement founded in 1638 by Anne Hutchinson and others on the northern end of Aquidneck Island. They came south and founded Newport. Newport's Eu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWO0_the-rocky-shore_Newport-RI.html
This rocky outcrop is sometimes eroded by waves powerful enough to tear a hole in them. Colonies of small marine animals living on the shore, however, can withstand these forces. Some withdraw into narrow crevices, others attach themselves permane…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWNP_bay-islands-park_Newport-RI.html
The Bay Islands Park, managed by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, consists of nine sites that extend from Patience Island in the upper bay to Beavertail and Brenton Point overlooking Rhode Island Sound. Each of the nine sit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWNI_erich-a-o-d-taylor_Newport-RI.html
Statesman ~ LegislatorTeacher ? ~ ? Patriot1st Chairman - Fort Adams FoundationMay 18, 1972 A dynamic force for the preservationof Fort Adams with a determinationas unyielding as this granite block.
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