Newport Architects

Session 2 - Newport Architects

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February 26 and March 1 (snow 3/5, 3/8)

Newport has always been known for its vast array of architecture with buildings ranging from the colonial era to the mansions of the Gilded Age. Many of the structures that still stand in Newport present an architectural history of the United States and Newport a special essence. The word architect as we think of today was not a profession as what it was considered prior to the 1860s. The first trained "architect" or architect who specifically went to school to be trained as such is often said to be Richard Morris Hunt, buried in Island Cemetery. Island Cemetery is particularly important to architects, not only does it have monuments designed by architects but serves as the final resting place for a handful of other significant architects and builders who have greatly contributed to Newport's architectural heritage and that of the United States. This lecture will discuss these individuals and showcase many of their structures that make Newport what it is today."

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