A4 Spotlight: World Heritage Site – Newport

A4 Spotlight: World Heritage Site – Newport

Once again, Newport is hoping to become a World Heritage site. This column has often argued that Newport is blessed with a broad and deep cultural and architectural heritage. From the city’s rich concentration of colonial houses along Spring Street and in the Point...
Newport Architecture Spotlight: Newport Spring

Newport Architecture Spotlight: Newport Spring

In 1639, looking for a new place to form a new community, a small group of colonial settlers found what they were looking for: a deep water harbor with a freshwater spring nearby. The colonial charter readers:  “It is agreed and ordered that the Plantation began at...