Newport
By Rob Lewis
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Visit the town of Newport, one of New England's largest seaports, through this new and exciting photographic history.
Founded in 1639, the city of Newport offered a temperate climate and a wealth of natural resources to early settlers seeking religious freedom. In Colonial times, Newport flourished as one of New England's largest seaports, a prosperity dimmed only by the Revolutionary War and subsequent three-year British occupation. Despite the fact that more than one-third of existing homes in Newport were destroyed by the British during their stay, Newport today still has the largest number of eighteenth-century homes of all cities in the United States. In 1968, the Newport Restoration Foundation was founded by tobacco heiress Doris Duke to preserve, protect, and restore the city's eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture. The foundation's extensive photographic archives have been made available to area resident and modern-day photographer Rob Lewis in the creation of this new and exciting photographic history.
Rob Lewis
Rob Lewis is a Senior Lecturer in the Cardiff School of Education at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He has considerable experience and success teaching A level psychology, and for many years was a senior examiner for AQA. In addition to teaching and examining, Rob has been actively involved in A Level specification development and delivering INSET and CPD training for teachers.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Interesting, especially if you're into Newport's boat-racing history. I'm not, but the book had some earlier historical stuff I found useful.
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Newport - Rob Lewis
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Introduction
Newport was founded in 1639 by settlers looking for religious freedom. The proximity to the water was beneficial in many ways. It provided a natural harbor for commerce, and the ocean breezes kept the island cool in the summer and temperate in the winter months. Newport as a seaport thrived, and by the early 1700s it was larger than Boston. As late as 1769, Newport rivaled New York in foreign and domestic commerce. The Revolutionary War brought about an end to this, however. During the British occupation of Newport, over 480 structures were destroyed, and the seaport never regained its prominence.
The Fall River Line began its daily runs to Newport around 1847 and provided passage to Fall River, Boston, and New York—a service which lasted until 1937. Another lifeline to Newport was the Old Colony Railroad Company which began its service in 1863.
The mid to late 1800s are known to this day in Newport as the Gilded Age.
Artists and writers flocked to Newport each year for summer holidays. Luxurious hotels were built to accommodate the influx of summer residents, and by the late 1800s robber barons, industrial giants, and other wealthy folk began to build lavish estates—homes that were used as summer cottages,
for eight to twelve weeks each year.
In the 1950s and ’60s, Newport was very much in jeopardy of losing many valuable relics of the past. The port was again dealt a devastating financial blow with the large-scale pullout of the navy. Coincidentally, in the late 1960s, tobacco heiress Doris Duke established the Newport Restoration Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission was to preserve, protect, and restore the architecture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over eighty homes were purchased and restored, and eventually leased to private individuals. Today Newport has the most eighteenth-century homes of any city on the East Coast. Thanks to the efforts of Operation Clapboard,
the Newport Historical Society, the Newport Restoration Foundation, and many private restorations, the heritage of our past lives on!
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Thames Street
New technology. An early photographer captures a moment in time on Thames Street at Washington Square. (Photograph from the Daily News, courtesy of the Newport Historical Society.)
Upper Thames Street. The John Steven’s Shop, a family stone-cutting business, was founded in 1705 and has been on this spot since 1760.
The bow window from Feke’s Apothecary Shop on Washington Square. In this photograph, the window has been moved to Dr. Johnson’s store on Thames Street, between Marlborough Street and Washington Square. Today it is installed in the Newport Historical Society.
Upper Thames Street. The J.H. Barney and Co. piano store is shown here, c. 1906.