Newport Historic District
National Historic Landmark District · Newport, Rhode Island
A colonial seaport on Aquidneck Island founded in 1639, and one of the very few American cities where the eighteenth-century street plan and a large part of its building stock both survive. It holds the oldest synagogue building in the United States, hosted the first U.S. Open in both tennis and golf, and staged every America’s Cup challenge between 1930 and 1983. Two centuries later the Gilded Age built its summer palaces along Bellevue Avenue on the far side of the same small peninsula, which is why one town of twenty-five thousand people carries two entirely different histories.
Washington Square, Newport, Rhode Island, 02840, United States
FREE and open at all hours — the district is public streets and a working town. Individual museums, house museums, church interiors and the mansions each keep their own hours and most close by late afternoon. ⚠ SUMMER PARKING IS THE REAL CONSTRAINT: the peninsula is small, the garages fill by late morning in July and August, and street parking is metered and enforced. The Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals at Fort Adams fill the entire town for their weekends.
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