A4 Spotlight: The 2024 Doris Duke Historic Preservation Awards

by Ross Cann AIA RA | Sep 11, 2024 | Architectural Historian Spotlight, Articles, Historical, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight

18th Annual Doris Duke Awards Invite Cover Newport has a rich history visible through the charm of many of its beautifully designed historic buildings and homes. Responsibility for the preservation and maintenance of these buildings has fallen to the people who...

A4 Architecture Tour: From The Gilded Age Into The Modern Era Along Newport’s Waterfront

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...

A4 Architecture Tour: Late Gilded Age, Ochre Point & Lower Bellevue

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,...

A4 Architecture Tour: Early Gilded Age Newport

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,...

A4 Guide: The Six Phases of the Architectural Design Process

by Ross Cann AIA RA | Jan 30, 2024 | Newport Architect Spotlight, Professional, Project Spotlight

Previous Project on Ocean Ave (Newport, Rhode Island) In previous Archi-TEXT articles it was discussed the value of an architect to help you navigate the various phases of the design of a new home or building or the renovation of an existing one, but what are the...

A4 Spotlight: Long Wharf North Renovation

by Ross Cann AIA RA | Oct 30, 2023 | Articles, Newport Architect Spotlight, Newport Spotlight, Urban Planning

Long Wharf Mall (Newport, Rhode Island) When Newport was first founded in 1639 upon the discovery of a freshwater spring near the deep-water harbor, there was one main road connecting the spring to the water: Long Wharf. This wharf extended out into the Narragansett...