by Ross Cann AIA RA | Sep 2, 2026 | Architectural Design, Articles, Historical, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight
(Trinity Church – Newport, RI) Before there were architects in America, there were the great Architect-Builders. These were men who had developed drafting and building skills simultaneously through their careers and were able to apply them to the art and science...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Jul 22, 2026 | Architectural Design, Articles, Historical, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight, Project Spotlight
(Seventh Day Baptist Meeting House – Newport, RI c.1890) Richard Munday was a Colonial-Era Architect-Builder who is famous for two noteworthy Newport structures: the Old Colony House and Trinity Church. He is also the author behind another structure that is now...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Jul 13, 2026 | Architectural Design, Articles, Historical, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight
Marble House (Richard Morris Hunt, 1888 – 1892) Origins and Construction Marble House is one of Newport great Gilded Age monuments. Located at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, Marble House, was commissioned by railroad heir William Kissam Vanderbilt...
by Ross Cann AIA RA | Jun 25, 2026 | Architectural Design, Articles, Guide, Newport Architect Spotlight, Professional
What does an Architect actually do? Much more than you might think. When most people picture an architect, they imagine someone loosely sketching out a building plan on a drafting table. In reality, the job is far more complex than that, and after more than thirty...
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...
