Newport Books

Newport the Artful City

Written by John R. Tschirch Newport: The Artful City is a richly illustrated portrait of Newport, Rhode Island as a work of urban art, from colonial times to the present, both documented and celebrated in the maps, paintings, photographs, poetry and...

Murder at Chateau sur Mer - A Gilded Newport Mystery

Late nineteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, is home to some of America’s wealthiest citizens. For society reporter Emma Cross, a less well-heeled cousin to the illustrious Vanderbilts, trailing gossip and glamour will lead her straight into...

A Newport Summer by Nick Mele & Ruthie Sommers

An intimate love letter to summertime in Newport from photographer Nick Mele and interior designer Ruthie Sommers Newport, Rhode Island, is one of the last bastions of American high society. The grand Gilded Age houses that top its oceanside cliffs and...

Saving Narragansett Bay: How People, Passion, and Perseverance made All the Difference

With over 100 pages and photographs, “Saving Narragansett Bay” captures the pivotal battles, rulings and turning points that helped Narragansett Bay improve and recover in the last five decades—from defeating ill-sited energy plant...

Working Newport: Watercolors by William Heydt

The kaleidoscope that is Newport is reflected in the dynamic watercolors of William Heydt. His bold palette and painterly technique create a prismatic effect of form and color. Alternating patterns of people and places converge and diverge, forming...

Newport: American Beauty Rose

A beautiful edition of poetry about "home" and "place;" the collection focuses on Newport, Rhode Island but clearly has universality to everyone's home. Hardcover, 106 pages Measures: 9" x 6 ½" x 1" Item #016494