Explore Newport

Touro Synagogue was built in 1759–1763 for Newport's Sephardic congregation, to designs by Peter Harrison, and is the oldest synagogue building still standing in the United States. In 1790 George Washington wrote his letter on religious liberty to its congregation; guided tours start at the Loeb Visitors Center next door.

Trinity Church is an Anglican, now Episcopal, parish church built in 1725–1726 by the master builder Richard Munday after designs by Christopher Wren. The white wooden church on Queen Anne Square keeps its box pews and a three-tiered wineglass pulpit, and its graveyard holds colonial headstones from the 18th century.

The International Tennis Hall of Fame occupies the Newport Casino, a shingle-style social club designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1880, where the first U.S. National Championships were played in 1881. Its museum covers the history of tennis and its inductees, and the grass courts on the grounds are still played on.

Chateau-sur-Mer was built in 1852 for the China trade merchant William Shepard Wetmore and enlarged in the 1870s by Richard Morris Hunt. The granite house on Bellevue Avenue shows High Victorian architecture, furniture, wallpapers and stencilled decoration, and was the largest residence in Newport before the Vanderbilt houses.

The Breakers is the summer house Richard Morris Hunt designed for Cornelius Vanderbilt II, built in 1893–1895 in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo above the Atlantic shore. Its 70 rooms, with the two-storey Great Hall, are shown with their original furnishings by the Preservation Society of Newport County.

Rosecliff was built in 1898–1902 for the silver heiress Theresa Fair Oelrichs, designed by Stanford White after the Grand Trianon at Versailles. Its heart-shaped staircase and large ballroom have appeared in films such as The Great Gatsby, and the lightly furnished upper floor is used for changing exhibitions.

Marble House was built in 1888–1892 for William K. Vanderbilt and his wife Alva, to designs by Richard Morris Hunt inspired by the Petit Trianon at Versailles. The house uses about 14,000 cubic metres of marble; its gilded ballroom and the Chinese Tea House on the cliff-side lawn are part of the visit.

Rough Point is an English manor-style house built in 1887–1892 for Frederick W. Vanderbilt on a point at the southern end of Bellevue Avenue. It later belonged to the tobacco heiress Doris Duke, and the Newport Restoration Foundation she founded opened it as a museum in 2000 with her collections of art and furniture.