Newport Books

The Newport Mansions Book-Hardcover

Our best-selling book, Newport Mansions, has been completely revised, with updated text and new photographs. Filled with breathtaking photography and fascinating facts about the mansions, this book will make a wonderful addition to your library or coffee...

A Guidebook to the Newport Mansions

Our BEST SELLER is back in print!!! Provides all new photographs and updated text about the properties and collections preserved by The Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island. Full color, 88 pages. Measures: 9" x 6" x 1/4" Item#...

The Newport Mansions Book-Softcover

Our best-selling book, Newport Mansions, has been completely revised, with updated text and new photographs. Filled with breathtaking photography and fascinating facts about the mansions, this book will make a wonderful addition to your library or coffee...

The Newport Experience

The Preservation Society of Newport County gives more than 1 million tours to visitors from over 100 countries annually, making it one of the most-visited museums in New England. The Society has welcomed 40 million visitors since its founding in 1945...

Lost Newport: Third Edition

Featuring more than 190 vintage views of cottages built from the early nineteeth century to the early twentieth century, Lost Newport recreates 59 summer houses, now lost, in an evocative guide that gives depth to any Newport experience. softcover 199...

Newport in Flower

Newport in Flower features the Smithsonian's handpainted glass plate slides of Newport's estate gardens in the 1920's. The book has been updated to include photos of the gardens as they appear today. Hardcover, 164 pages. Measures: 10 3/4" x 8" x 3/4"...

Newport Cottages: 1835-1890 The Summer Villas Before the Vanderbilt Era

Advance copies available exclusively at Newport Style! A compelling account of the luxury and splendor of Newport's nineteenth-century summer “cottages.” In his latest contribution to America's architectural record, Michael C. Kathrens gives...

A Guide to Newport's Cliff Walk

From the grand majesty of the Breakers to the Versailles-inspired Marble House, Morris showcases the architectural flowering of the Gilded Age, leading a tour of twenty-four historic mansions and landmarks while entertaining with tales of splendor and...

A Guide to Historic Burial Grounds in Newport

A Guide to Historic Burial Grounds in Newport: The Stories Behind the Stones by Lewis Keen While now known as America’s summer playground, Newport was at one time the nation’s fifth-largest seaport, containing a diverse population that is...

Newport: Images of America

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...

Wicked Newport

Sordid Stories from the City by the Sea: Founded by a small band of religious freedom seekers in 1639, Newport, Rhode Island, subsequently became a bustling colonial seaport teeming with artists, sailors, prosperous merchants and, perhaps most...

Ghosts of Newport

Spirits, Scoundrels, Legends and Lore By John Brennan Today's Newport attracts countless visitors from around the world; its streets are alive with art, culture, wealth and beauty. Yet the city harbors echoes of a dark and turbulent past, including a...

Gilded Summers

Pearl and Ginevra grow up in the era known as the Gilded Age in Newport, Rhode Island. One lives above the stairs, the other below. Surrounded by Astors and Vanderbilts, Pearl fills her days with teatime and shallow friendships, yearning for something...

Newport Firsts: A Hundred Claims to Fame

by Brian M. StinsonNewport, Rhode Island, has been a city of innovation since its beginning nearly four centuries ago. Some of the claims on a national level are true, while some have been greatly distorted over the years. The freethinking citizens...

America's Eden: Newport Landscapes through the Ages

In 1789, Jedidiah Morse described Newport and its environs as the “Eden of America” in the First Geography of the United States. America’s Eden: Newport Landscapes through the Ages builds on this legendary image of a...

Trees of Newport

During the 1970s, Richard L. Champlin of Jamestown became known as "The Tree Man" in Rhode Island - and records of big trees and inquiries were directed his way. As a librarian at the Redwood Library in Newport he developed an inventory of the Specimen...

Katherine Warren: A Passion for Preservation

By Alyssa LozuponeToday, Newport is renowned as one of the most historically significant and architecturally intact cities in America. In the years following World War II, this heritage was under siege; the city's rich collection of colonial buildings...

Newport History Bytes

In 2011, the Newport Historical Society launched a blog to highlight tidbits of Newport County’s rich history. Intended to be a fast read, and to occasionally illustrate the countless aspects of historical popular culture that are connected to...

Ghostly Tales of Newport

Ghostly Tales of Newport by Jennifer Cameron Welcome to the spooky streets and shores of Newport! Stay alert! Ghosts lurk around every corner. Even the most unexpected places might be haunted by wandering phantoms. Did you know that a flaming phantom...

The Newport Bridge

Author James Ricci details the trials and tribulations that produced an iconic bridge. Newport is a premier destination, but getting to the city has not always been easy. For three centuries, ferries crossed Narragansett Bay’s East Passage. That all...