by Ross Cann AIA RA | Jun 16, 2026 | Architectural Design, Articles, Historical, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight
Champ Soleil, Newport, RI (Polhemus & Coffin, 1929) Champ Soleil: A Newport’s Gilded Age Estate Returns to the Spotlight On Newport’s famed Bellevue Avenue, a street already lined with American palaces (including the Vanderbilts’ Marble House,...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Jun 3, 2026 | Architectural Design, Articles, Historical, Newport Architect Spotlight
(The Before & After of 6 Elm Street, Newport, RI) Doris Duke: The Heiress Who Saved Colonial Newport When tobacco and hydroelectric fortune heiress Doris Duke surveyed Newport, Rhode Island in the late 1960s, she saw something that most of the world had long...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Jun 1, 2026 | Architectural Design, Articles, Historical, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight
Trinity Church, Newport, 2026 Standing at the heart of Queen Anne Square in Newport, Rhode Island, Trinity Church has watched three centuries of American life unfold around it. On May 31, 2026, Trinity Sunday, the congregation marked a milestone worthy of the whole...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Apr 29, 2026 | Architectural Design, Articles, Newport Architect Spotlight, Project Spotlight
Seaweed Cottage (c.1860) photographed from Spouting Rock Beach. Seaweed: A Newport Treasure Transformed Seaweed Cottage, perched dramatically above the Atlantic at the very southern end of Newport’s celebrated Cliff Walk, stands as an example of a quietly...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Mar 10, 2026 | Architectural Design, Articles, Historical, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight
Edward Willing House (Richard Morris Hunt, 1865) / Sherwood Lodge (Hoppin & Ely, c.1906) Many of the mansions of Newport have undergone major renovations as the owners’ needs (and the styles of the times) have changed. Previous A4 Archi-TEXT articles have...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Mar 4, 2026 | Architectural Design, Articles, Historical, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight
(Colorized) Breakers designed by Peobody & Stearns (1878) Even today Newport is filled with Gilded Age mansions. But many of the grand houses that once existed from that time have been lost over time and still others have been replaced with different mansions,...
