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...
by Ross Cann | Mar 24, 2011 | Historical
For the last twenty years, there has been a growing planning movement called “New Urbanism.” This ideology advocates, according to NewUrbanism.org, the following principles: 1) Walkability, 2) Connectivity; 3) Diversity of uses; 4) Mixed (price) housing; 7) Quality...
by Ross Cann | Mar 10, 2011 | Historical
We are now going through the first prolonged economic downturn marked by mass migration from parts of the world even more economically challenged. Since the city’s founding in 1639, Newport has seen numerous cycles of boom and bust and waves of migration that matched...
by Ross Cann | Oct 7, 2010 | Historical
Newport is filled with wonderful buildings in widely differing styles, created at different times and for different purposes. Some, like the Newport Casino, are associated with summer fun. Others, like Belcourt Castle, have become equally famous for the Halloween...
by Ross Cann | Apr 14, 2010 | Historical
Newport might rightfully be considered the “Metropolitan Museum of American Architecture,” in that it is the repository of some of the most important works by some of this country’s most important architects. Furthermore, it has the distinction of...
