by Ross Cann | Jan 12, 2012 | Historical
As most Newporters are well aware, the great mansions along Bellevue Avenue were primarily built during the Gilded Age. This was the period from about 1887 until the First World War, when some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in America were drawn to the...
by Ross Cann | Aug 4, 2011 | Professional, Technology
As energy prices continue to rise and concerns about “global warming” and “carbon footprints” become more widespread, the building industry is beginning to change to address these new concerns. We are currently at the leading edge of the “green building” phenomenon —...
by Ross Cann | Jun 9, 2011 | Professional, Project Spotlight
In 1981, when the judges of the Vietnam Memorial competition opened the envelope on the back of the winning entry board, they found the name “Maya Lin” and the address of a Yale dormitory where the young woman lived as an undergraduate student. From among more than...
by Ross Cann | May 12, 2011 | Historical, Project Spotlight
Newport is not only known for its concentration of great and important architecture. It is also a cemetery for landscape design and a treasure trove of rare and exotic trees. This is not surprising as the city has always been a port city connected to distant lands by...
by Ross Cann | Apr 14, 2011 | Historical
Newport is fortunate to have had many of the most notable American architects of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries design buildings within the community. Peter Harrison, Richard Upjohn, Richard Morris Hunt, H.H. Richardson, Horace Trumbauer, and Stanford...
