Overlooking Narragansett Bay, Blithewold was built in 1908 for Augustus Van Wickle, and resembles a 17th-century English country manor. Its 45 rooms are furnished much as they were when the family lived here and decorated with their collections of Baccarat crystal, Gorham silver, more than 30 sets of fine china, several Tiffany lamps and dolls, along with […]
You can’t miss the magnificent façade of the former Loew’s Movie Palace on Weybosset Street, especially at night, when it lights up in all its neon glory. Reborn as the Providence Performing Arts Center in 1982, the authentically restored 1928 Beaux Arts theater is resplendent with marble columns, crystal chandeliers, tiers of balconies detailed in plasterwork, and […]
Despite its history as one of the country’s oldest zoos, Roger Williams Park Zoo is an outstanding example of modern zoo design and ethics. Largely cage-free, the zoo is a place where animals live in environments as close as possible to their native habitat, and where visitors can see them with a minimum of visible barriers. In […]
Despite past efforts of mansion owners on the preferred ocean side of Bellevue Avenue to close off access, Newport’s Cliff Walk has remained a public walking path since the days when the great palaces were at their prime. The pathway along the rocky shore provides walkers with views of breakers crashing on the rocks below, […]
Newport’s most celebrated – and showiest – Gilded Age mansion in Newport was built by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1895 and reflects the unimaginable wealth of the Vanderbilt family. The Italian Renaissance “summer cottage” has 70 rooms, including a grand three-story dining room, and was built using imported French and Italian marble and alabaster. Ceiling paintings, […]
Rhode Island (/ˌroʊd-/ is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area and the seventh-least populous, with slightly fewer than 1.1 million residents as of 2020;[8] but Rhode Island has grown at every decennial count since 1790 and is the second-most densely populated […]
