Newport Rhode Island Mansion

Newport Artillery Museum , 23 Clarke St. Newport / 846-8488 King George II chartered the Newport Artillery in 1741. The museum exhibits American and foreign military items, with militaria from over one hundred countries. ... [Read More]

Florida Historic Places - Henry Morrison Flagler Museum
Whitehall was built in 1900 for Henry Flagler, cofounder of Standard Oil, and his third wife Mary Lily Kenan. Designed by John Carrere and Thomas Hastings in the Classical Revival style, Whitehall was meant to rival the extravagant mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. The mansion is built around a large open-air central courtyard and is modeled after palaces in Spain and Italy. Three stories tall with several wings, the mansion has fifty-five fully restored rooms furnished with period pieces. These rooms are large and extremely opulent with marble floors, walls and columns, murals on the ceilings, and heavy gilding. The mansion is approximately three-quarters of a mile east of The Breakers, an early 20th century resort hotel. Today Whitehall houses the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum. ... [Read More]

Rhode Island Hosts the National Immunization Registry Conference
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) and the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announce the 2000 National Immunization Registry Conference at the Newport Marriott March 27 th to the 29 th . The Department of Health welcomes Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady and co-founder of Every Child By Two. Mrs. Carter will be in Newport on the evening of Tuesday, March 28 th to speak at the conference reception, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and All Kids Count National Program Office at the OceanCliff Mansion. Mrs. Betty Bumpers, who co-founded Every Child By Two with Mrs. Carter, will be speaking at a conference plenary session earlier in the day. ... [Read More]

Survey Tool for RI Nursing Homes
VANDERBILT REHAB. CTR. NEWPORT ...

VILLAGE HOUSE CONVALESCENT HOME NEWPORT ...

THE MANSION CENTRAL FALLS ... [Read More]

75th Anniversary - Residential Designs by the Horace Trumbauer Architectural Firm
For example, coal millionaire Edward J. Berwind, who had collaborated with Widener on the financing of the New York City subway system, commissioned Trumbauer to design The Elms in Newport, Rhode Island at the turn of the century. Based on the mid eighteenth-century French Château d'Asnières outside Paris, The Elms was one of the most exquisite vacation villas in Newport, a gathering place for the country's rich and powerful. Purchased by the Preservation Society of Newport County in 1962 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996, The Elms is one of only a few Trumbauer residences open to the public. ... [Read More]

RIHP&HC: News Archive 2002
   Copies of the book will be distributed to local libraries throughout Rhode Island. Or you can order a copy through Blithewold Gardens, Mansion and Arboretum . Or visit Books on the Square (Providence), the Museum of Work and Culture (Woonsocket), or Barrington Books. (5/8/02) ...

   A community movie theatre in Woonsocket, an expert preservation contractor from Warwick, archaeological investigation and restoration of Newport’s oldest house, Westerly’s voice for historic preservation, a smart-growth planning manual for South County, three legislators who secured new preservation tax credits for the state—these are some of the winners of Rhode Island's 2002 Historic Preservation Awards . (6/17/02) ... [Read More]

75th Anniversary - Exhibition - Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938)
In the first years of the new century, Trumbauer's firm expanded its scope, designing not only mansions in Philadelphia, New York City, and Newport, Rhode Island, but also apartment houses and other large structures. Trumbauer married Sara Thomson Williams in 1903 and soon erected a home in the Wynnefield section of the City. By 1904, when the prominent Architectural Record published a lengthy account of Trumbauer's works, he had become one of the country's most distinguished architects. ... [Read More]

75th Anniversary - Trumbauer
Born in the Frankford section of Philadelphia in 1868, Horace Trumbauer quit school at age fourteen to enter the architecture profession as an errand boy at G. W. and W. D. Hewitt's prominent Philadelphia firm. Advancing quickly, he was soon promoted to draftsman. After accumulating valuable experience, in 1890 he set out on his own, opening an office at 310 Chestnut Street. According to Trumbauer historian Frederick Platt, the architect received $171.75 for his first commission, a house near Narberth, Pennsylvania for Mrs. A. M. Walker. Soon afterward, he landed his first major commission, designing a mansion in Glenside for sugar baron William Welsh Harrison. When Harrison's mansion burned to the ground in 1893, the businessman again commissioned Trumbauer, who created Grey Towers (now part of Arcadia University), an enormous, crenellated, castle-like mansion that marks the architect's ascendance to prominence in the profession. ... [Read More]

RIHP&HC: NR List of Properties
    The Newport Casino and The Van Alen Casino Theatre and Newport Performing Arts Center (The Casino Theatre), 194 Bellevue Avenue (12/2/70) NHL 1987 ...

    Newport Harbor Lighthouse, Goat Island (Newport Harbor) (3/30/88) ...

    Governor Sprague Mansion/William Sprague House, 1351 Cranston Street (2/18/71) ... [Read More]

Museum Grant Awards, July 1999
DESCRIPTION: Planning for a CD-ROM, website, video, and audio exhibition for children exploring themes in the history, geology, and ecology of Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon. VIRGINIA Newport News, Mariners Museum $40,796 ...

Oneida, Oneida Community Mansion House $10,000 ...

DESCRIPTION: A colloquium, planning conference, and interpretive plan for the site of an influential 19th- century utopian society, the Oneida Community Mansion House. NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte, Museum of the New South $200,858 ... [Read More]