Newport Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  International Tennis Hall of Fame

  Inside the Newport Casino you find the International Tennis Hall of Fame. This is a place that honors players and contributors to the sport of tennis and operates as a non-profit with the goal of preserving, celebrating, and inspiring the sport around the world.

• Naval War College

  This is the staff college and Home of Thought for the United States Navy at Naval Station Newport, now in front of you. Established on October 6, 1884, the college began in the building that had housed the Newport Asylum for the Poor on Coasters Harbor Island in Narragansett Bay, and from that moment it set out to educate and develop leaders, support combat readiness, and strengthen global maritime partnerships.

• Salve Regina University

  Salve Regina University is a private coeducational Roman Catholic university in Newport, Rhode Island. Founded in 1934 by the Sisters of Mercy, it traces its legal birth to a state charter granted on March 6, 1934 to Salve Regina College — translated from the Latin as "Hail Queen" — which specified that the college would exist "to promote virtue, and piety and learning".

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  Rosecliff

  Rosecliff, the Gilded Age mansion in Newport, is now open to the public as a historic house museum. The house has also been known as the Hermann Oelrichs House and the J. Edgar Monroe House.

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  Touro Synagogue

  Touro Synagogue rose here in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1763. This is the only surviving synagogue building in the U.S. dating to the colonial era, and it is the oldest synagogue building still standing in the United States and North America.

All 36 stops

• Easton's Point (Easton's Point)

  Notice the Point, often called Easton's Point, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Newport and home to one of the highest concentrations of colonial houses…

• Washington Square (Newport)

  Washington Square is the geographical and historical heart of Newport, Rhode Island.

• Old Colony House (Washington Square)

  At the east end of Washington Square, the Old Colony House, also called the Old State House or Newport Colony House, fills your view.

• White Horse Tavern (Newport)

  On the corner of Farewell and Marlborough streets, the White Horse Tavern waits for you.

• Great Friends Meeting House (Newport Historic District)

  Since 1699 the Great Friends Meeting House has stood in Newport, Rhode Island.

• Touro Synagogue (Newport)

  Touro Synagogue rose here in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1763.

• Touro Cemetery (Colonial Historic District)

  Behind these gates lies the Touro Synagogue Cemetery, also called the Jewish Cemetery at Newport, tucked in Newport's colonial historic district not far from the…

• Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery (Newport)

  Here on Farewell and Warner Street, the Common Burying Ground and Island Cemetery are a pair of separate cemeteries that together hold over 5,000 graves.

• Museum of Newport History (Washington Square)

  Your stop is the Old Brick Market building, home to the Museum of Newport History.

• Samuel Whitehorne House (Thames Street)

  Built for Samuel Whitehorne Jr. in 1811, the Federal-style Whitehorne House at 416 Thames Street in Newport is open to the public as a historic…

• Francis Malbone House (Thames Street)

  A shipping merchant's fortune built the Francis Malbone House at 392 Thames Street in Newport.

• Perry Mill (Thames Street)

  Five stories of stone rise at 337 Thames Street: this is the Perry Mill on the Newport waterfront.

• Newport Steam Factory (Thames Street)

  Stone walls at 449 Thames Street mark the Newport Steam Factory in Newport, Rhode Island.

• Clarke Cooke House (Bannister's Wharf)

  Clarke Cooke House, also known as Clark Cooke House or Clark Cook House, is the historic colonial house and restaurant on Bannister's Wharf at 285…

• Goat Island (Easton's Point)

  Across the water sits Goat Island, a small island in Narragansett Bay that belongs to the city of Newport.

• Ida Lewis Light (Newport)

  Out in Newport harbor sits the Ida Lewis Lighthouse, formerly the Lime Rock Lighthouse.

• Fort Adams State Park (Newport)

  Fort Adams guards the harbor mouth in Newport, Rhode Island, a large coastal fortification spread in front of you.

• Bellevue Avenue Historic District (Newport)

  Gilded Age mansions line the Bellevue Avenue Historic District in Newport, Rhode Island, a place almost exclusively residential.

• Newport Casino (Bellevue Avenue/Casino Historic District)

  Shingles and tennis courts: the Newport Casino occupies 180–200 Bellevue Avenue in Newport.

• International Tennis Hall of Fame (Newport)

  Inside the Newport Casino you find the International Tennis Hall of Fame.

• Audrain Building (Bellevue Avenue/Casino Historic District)

  Red brick and terra cotta mark the Audrain Building at 222 Bellevue Avenue, a commercial landmark set directly adjacent to the Newport Casino.

• Redwood Library and Athenaeum (Kay Street–Catherine Street–Old Beach Road Historic District)

  Founded in 1747, the Redwood Library and Athenaeum occupies 50 Bellevue Avenue in Newport.

• John N. A. Griswold House (Bellevue Avenue)

  Number 76 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, the John N. A. Griswold House, is your next stop.

• Newport Art Museum (Bellevue Avenue)

  Art has a home at 76 Bellevue Avenue: the Newport Art Museum.

• Isaac Bell House (Bellevue Avenue)

  Edna Villa is the other name for the Isaac Bell House at 70 Perry Street, on the corner with Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.

• William Watts Sherman House (Bellevue Avenue Historic District)

  Shepard Avenue, number 2, in Newport, Rhode Island, is where the William Watts Sherman House rises in front of you.

• Chateau-sur-Mer (Bellevue Avenue)

  Chateau-sur-Mer at 474 Bellevue Avenue was one of the first grand Bellevue Avenue mansions of the Gilded Age in Newport.

• Kingscote (Bellevue Avenue)

  Gothic Revival gables crown Kingscote, the mansion and house museum at the corner of Bowery Street and Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island.

• Ochre Court (Newport)

  Ogden Goelet commissioned Ochre Court, the large châteauesque mansion in Newport built at a cost of $4.5 million in 1892.

• Rosecliff (Newport)

  Rosecliff, the Gilded Age mansion in Newport, is now open to the public as a historic house museum.

• The Elms (Bellevue Avenue)

  Some call The Elms at 367 Bellevue Avenue in Newport a summer cottage, facetiously, for this is a large mansion.

• The Breakers (Ochre Point)

  Back in 1878 the first Breakers rose along the Cliff Walk on Ochre Point Avenue, right where you are.

• Cliff Walk (Newport)

  Under your feet begins the Cliff Walk, a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) public access walkway that borders the shoreline of Newport.

• Salve Regina University (Newport Cliff Walk)

  Salve Regina University is a private coeducational Roman Catholic university in Newport, Rhode Island.

• Naval War College Museum (Coasters Harbor Island)

  Building 10 on Luce Avenue at Naval Station Newport houses the Naval War College Museum.

• Naval War College (Coasters Harbor Island)

  This is the staff college and Home of Thought for the United States Navy at Naval Station Newport, now in front of you.

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