by Ross Cann AIA RA | Aug 8, 2024 | Articles, Newport Architect Spotlight
The Newport Architecture Tour Map Newport, since its founding in 1639, has been a community wedded to its waterfront and became known as the “City by The Sea”. During its early days, the community grew up on The Point and Historic Hill, with the city depending upon...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Aug 1, 2024 | Articles, Newport Architect Spotlight
The Newport Architecture Tour Map Following the arrival of Caroline Astor (Mrs. William Backhouse When Astor Jr.) to Newport in 1880 things started to change rapidly. What had been a quiet and gentile summer retreat for old money people from New York, Boston,...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Jul 24, 2024 | Articles, Newport Architect Spotlight
The Newport Architecture Tour Map During Newport’s occupation by the British forces from 1776 to 1779, the population of the town decreased by fifty percent, and it would never return to its status as the fifth most populated city in North America. It was,...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Jul 18, 2024 | Articles, Historical, Newport Spotlight
The Newport Architecture Tour Map Newport Rhode Island was founded in 1639 when a freshwater spring was discovered near a protected deep-water harbor just off the Atlantic Ocean. Unlike other colonies, such as nearby Massachusetts, the colony of “Rhode Island...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Jul 10, 2024 | Articles, Newport Spotlight
This coming week the eyes of the tennis world will be on Newport as many of the players from Wimbledon will be competing in the Infosys Hall of Fame Open. This is the only ATP men’s tournament played on grass in North America and extends the tradition of tennis, which...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Jun 26, 2024 | Articles, Newport Spotlight
Pantheon In Rome, Italy 128 AD Steel-reinforced concrete is the means by which most tall buildings are constructed today. It pairs the compressive strength of concrete with the tensile strength of steel to make an incredibly structurally efficient hybrid composite and...
