Since 1999 Newport Craft Brewing & Distilling Company has hand-crafted more than 100 distinctive beers and award-winning spirits based on the proven recipe of keeping things authentically local. NCB&DCo is the maker of Thomas Tew Rums, and is the first...
The Newport Colony House, built in 1739, is the fourth oldest statehouse still standing in the United States. It was designed by builder/architect Richard Munday, who also designed Trinity Church and the Seventh Day Baptist Meeting House in Newport. Munday...
Redwood Library & Athenæum, chartered in 1747, is America’s first purpose-built library, and the oldest continuously operating in its original location. As such, this handsome building is the only remaining secular public cultural institution in this country with an unbroken link...
This unique Chinese Tea House abuts the seaside cliffs behind Marble House and is currently the site of Newport Classical’s beloved sunrise concerts. The lavish Marble House mansion, built between 1888 and 1892, was designed by famed architect Richard Morris...
The Elms was the summer residence of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Julius Berwind of Philadelphia and New York. Mr. Berwind made his fortune in the coal industry. In 1898, the Berwinds engaged Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer to design a house modeled after the mid-18th century French chateau d’Asnieres (c.1750) outside Paris.
The Newport Art Museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture have the power to bring diverse groups of individuals together, which ultimately promotes civic engagement and strengthens the social fabric of our communities.
Blithewold Mansion is a tranquil, 33-acre summer estate with sweeping views of Narragansett Bay. Newport Classical concerts are set in a tent on Blithewold’s Great Lawn. The surrounding grounds, gardens, and arboretum are well worth exploring before or after the concert.
Rosecliff, built 1898–1902, is one of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, now open to the public as a historic house museum. The house has also been known as the Hermann Oelrichs House or the J. Edgar Monroe House.
Established in 1949 through a bequest made by Mabel Norman Cerio, Norman Bird Sanctuary was to maintain the land “for the propagation, preservation, and protection of birds, and where birds and bird life may be observed, studied, taught, and enjoyed...
King Park, located on Wellington Avenue off lower Thames Street, overlooks the Newport Harbor with spectacular views of Pell Bridge.
