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.
Castle Hill Inn, perched above Narragansett Bay, boasts some of the most spectacular water views in all of New England. Castle Hill is quintessential Newport at its finest.
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...
Emmanuel Church has long been known as “the church of the people,” where “rich and poor, high and low, great and humble all worship and work together as friends.” It was originally established in 1841 as “Emmanuel Free Church,” meaning...
King Park, located on Wellington Avenue off lower Thames Street, overlooks the Newport Harbor with spectacular views of Pell Bridge.
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.
The Newport Classical Recital Hall is a beautiful and acoustically exceptional 182-seat venue that is home to Newport Classical's year-round Chamber Series.
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...
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...
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...
The Breakers is one of Newport’s grandest summer “cottages” with stately grounds overlooking the Cliff Walk and Easton’s Bay. In 1893, Cornelius Vanderbilt II commissioned famed architect Richard Morris Hunt to rebuild a burned-down property into something glorious. No expense was...
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...
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.
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