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 | 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...