Day 4 - (08/19) West Kingston, RI (Day 2)

We drove to Newport for a bit of house-hunting today.  As you will see, none quite met our needs.

Pell Bridge over Narragansett Bay
Gets us from Jamestown to Newport

After a stop at the Visitor Center, we drove past Newport Shipyards to Goat Island for a closer look at a cruise ship in port.

Caribbean Princess

Beautiful yacht in progress at the shipyard

We toured three mansions and one house of the rich and famous.  These "summer cottages" were only used for a few months of the year.  Huge, extravagant and wasteful are words that came to mind.  We couldn't take inside pictures.

The Breakers (1895) - entrance
70-room summer estate of New York Central Railroad
President Cornelius Vanderbilt II 

The Breakers - from the ocean

The Breakers

Rosecliff (1899)
Commissioned by Nevada silver heiress
Theresa Fair Oelrichs as a party house

Rosecliff - entrance

Rosecliff - side garden

Marble House (1892) - entrance
Alva Vanderbilt's "temple to the arts"
contained 500,000 cubic feet of marble

Marble House - ocean side

Ochre Point from Sheep Point
The Breakers is in the distance

Chinese Tea House at Marble House

Kingscote (1839)

Kingscote is a landmark of the Gothic Revival style in American architecture.  Its appearance in Newport marked the beginning of the “cottage boom” that distinguished the town as design laboratory for picturesque houses throughout the 19^th century.

We had dinner at The Wharf Pub & Restaurant on Bowens Wharf in Newport.  Our server, Brittany, graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville (Dick's sons live in Steubenville). Carol's fish & chips were great; Dick's lobster roll was OK.


This was a long day of exploring.  We returned to the campground at 6:30pm ... tired and ready to pack it in for the evening.