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Newport Restoration Foundation. Coordinates: 41.48966°N 71.31341°W. c. 1811 windmill on Prescott Farm. The Newport Restoration Foundation was founded by Doris Duke in 1968 in Newport, Rhode Island to preserve early housing stock including 18th century colonial homes. Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was the foundation's vice ...
Rough Point. Rough Point is one of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, now open to the public as a museum. It is an English Manorial style home designed by architectural firm Peabody & Stearns for Frederick William Vanderbilt. [ 1] Construction on the red sandstone and granite [ 2] began in 1887 and was completed 1892.
Duke founded the Newport Restoration Foundation back in 1968 to support the preservation of more than 80 Colonial homes in the city. The mansion has served as a house museum since 2003.
The Newport Restoration Foundation announced a schedule of community-centered events focused on The Great Elephant Migration: A Public Artwork by the Coexistence Collective, presented by Art ...
The Preservation Society of Newport County is a private, non-profit organization based in Newport, Rhode Island. It is Rhode Island's largest and most-visited cultural organization. The organization protects the architectural heritage of Newport County, especially the Bellevue Avenue Historic District. Seven of its 14 historic properties and ...
The Simon Pease House is one of the oldest properties in the Newport Restoration Society’s collection, but it is just one of over 70 properties owned by the society in general, several of which ...
Newport Ship. The Newport Ship is a mid-fifteenth-century sailing vessel discovered when archaeologists investigated an articulated timber structure uncovered during the building of the Riverfront Arts Centre in Newport in June 2002. The site is on the west bank of the River Usk, which runs through the city centre.
The restoration project involved a team that numbered in the hundreds and included local Newport contractors Kirby Perkins. Wardropper says the Schwarzmans are following in the footsteps of other ...