Best Museums Found In Rhode Island: 6Chateau-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... Kettle Pond Visitor Center 28 Deer Run (or 50 Bend Road, off Route 1) Charlestown, RI Type: Science Features exhibits, classrooms, and trails; Located at the Ninigret National Wildlife refuge; Free admission; Open year-round 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 ... 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... |