Museums in Newport AreaTotal found in this region of Rhode Island: 25Belcourt of Newport 657 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI Type: Historic House A mansion known to be haunted. Featured regular tours and candlelight ghost tours during the summer season. It was the only mans... Chateau-sur-Mer 474 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI Type: Historic House Status: Seasonal One of the Newport Mansions; completed in 1852 for China trade merchant William Shepard Wetmore; features Victorian/Italianate a... Chepstow 120 Narragansett Avenue Newport, RI Type: Historic House Status: Seasonal One of the Newport Mansions; built in 1860 as a summer home for Edmund Schermerhorn; designed as an Italianate-style villa; The ... Colony House Washington Square Newport, RI Type: Historic House The 4th oldest state house existing in the U.S.; It is a brick Georgian style building built in 1739; Still owned by the state b... Hunter House 54 Washington Street Newport, RI Type: Historic House Status: Seasonal One of the Newport Mansions; Georgian Colonial architecture; original part of house built between 1748 and 1754; The mansion is ... International Tennis Hall of Fame 194 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI Type: Sports Located at the Newport Casino (built in 1880); site of the first U.S. National Championships in 1881; "the Museum's galleries ch... Isaac Bell House 70 Perry Street Newport, RI Type: Historic House Status: Seasonal One of the Newport Mansions; Designed in 1883 for cotton broker and investor Isaac Bell; It is a shingle style house combining O... James Boone House 422 Thames Street Newport, RI Type: Historic House Owned by the Newport Restoration Foundation since 1969; Restored in 1973-74; One of 83 structures restored around Newport Jamestown Museum 92 Narragansett Avenue Jamestown, RI Type: History Status: Seasonal Exhibit space for the Jamestown Historical Society; Building was built in 1886 as a one room schoolhouse Kingscote 253 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI Type: Historic House Status: Seasonal One of the Newport Mansions; A summer "cottage" for southern planter George Noble Jones; Designed in 1839; The mansion is now ow... Marble House 596 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI Type: Historic House One of the Newport Mansions; Built between 1888 and 1892 for Mr. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt; Contains 500,000 cubic feet of ... Museum of Newport History 127 Thames Street (Washington Square) Newport, RI Type: History "The Museum provides the whole family with an engaging introduction to the area's rich history, architecture, and the stories of... Museum of Newport Irish History 648 Thames Street Newport, RI Type: History Small museum about Irish immigrants in Newport from the 1600s to present; Includes photographs, letters, documents, and artifact... Museum of Yachting 449 Thames Street Newport, RI Type: Technology Museum and library located in the 1831 Aquidneck Mill; Part of IYRS (International Yacht Restoration School) National Museum of American Illustration 492 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI Type: Art A museum devoted to the Golden Age of American illustration art (magazines, books, and advertisments); The collection contains o... Naval War College Museum 686 Cushing Road (U.S. Naval Station Gate 1) Newport, RI Type: Military The museum is open to the public and free; "Reservations and photo identification are necessary for entry onto the base. Visitor... Newport Art Museum 76 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI Type: Art A museum with a collection of contemporary visual art from Newport and New England artists from the late 1800s to present featur... Newport Exploration Center 175 Memorial Boulevard Newport, RI Type: Science, Natural History Part of Save The Bay (an organization to study and protect the ecological health of Narragansett Bay); NOTE: The Aquarium has be... Paradise School Paradise Avenue (at corner of Prospect Avenue) Middletown, RI Type: History A restored one room schoolhouse and museum built in 1875 and operated from 1875 until 1955; It is now the headquarters of the Mi... Portsmouth Historical Society Museum 870 East Main Road (Route 138) Portsmouth, RI Type: History Rosecliff 548 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI Type: Historic House Status: Seasonal One of the Newport Mansions; built from 1899 to 1902 by by Nevada silver heiress Theresa Fair Oelrichs; The mansion is now owned... The Breakers 44 Ochre Point Avenue Newport, RI Type: Historic House The grandest most opulant of the Newport mansions; built in the 1890s by Cornelius Vanderbilt II as a summer home; The mansion i... The Elms 367 Bellevue Avenue Newport, RI Type: Historic House One of the most popular Newport Mansions from the Gilded Age; It is a Neoclassical French chateau built from 1898 to 1901; The m... Whitehorne House 416 Thames Street Newport, RI Type: Historic House Status: Seasonal A Federal-style mansion filled with late 18th century furniture from the famous Townsend and Goddard workshops; Guided tours ava... Witherbee School Valley Road (corner of Green End Avenue) Middletown, RI Type: History A restored one room schoolhouse built in 1907 and operated until the early 1940s; It is the 3rd or 4th school built on this site... |