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 Left: Touro
Park about 1898 (Private Mailing Card). This image shows the statue of
Commodore Mathew C. Perry, the Channing Memorial Church, the band
stand, a large pole that was probably a Liberty Pole, and the stone
mill. Right: "Old Stone Mill, Newport, R. I. Copyright
1906" -
actually Touro Park. For an enlargement
of the left, click
here, the middle,
the right. |
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 Left: "Bellevue
Avenue and
Levin Street." This real photo card has a date of 1910 written on it,
but
not mailed. Down the street to the right is the Casino. Right: Thomson-Houston
Electric Railway System car. One source said it was
is on Levin Street, about to cross Bellevue Avenue, and another said it was on Bath Road. |
 |  Left: The Newport Casino is on the distant left. Right: Bellevue
Avenue, 1905, looking north (the Casino is in the opposite direction). |
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  Far Left:
the courtyard and clock tower of the Newport Casino. This is from a
stereo card. By the time postcard pictures were being taken the
fountain was no longer there.Left: Lawn tennis from an 1897 view book. Right: "Casino Bellevue Avenue." This section of street is featured on many cards, but this was especially nice. The Casino is famous for tennis. It is now also home of the International Tennis Hall of Fame and Museum. |
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  Left:
Two views of the second Ocean House (the first was destroyed by fire) -
from a stereo cards.Right: A news photo of the 1898 fire that destroyed the building. It was not rebuilt on Bellevue Avenue. |
 |  Left:
A cabinet card view of the Redwood Libary, on Bellevue, shows it
with a fence that does not appear in postcards. Right: an early
postcard showing the iron fence that later was eliminated. |
 |  Left: A Muenchinger-King advertisement from the 1910 Newport Directory.Right: A 1914 photo of the Muenchinger-King establishment in Newport |
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Left:
Trinity Church
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Left: Friend's
Meeting House on Farewell Street. 1922 is over the door.
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 |  Left: "Old Home Week Carnival, Red Men's Float" in from of the Bull house.Right: Governor Bull house on Bull Street. It was built in 1639 and destroyed in a large fire that destroyed many buildings in December of 1912. |
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 On
the left is an early card of Rogers High School - mailed in 1909 - before the
fire. On the right is a photo of the top floor of the Rogers High School after the fire on March 15, 1920. The school was rebuilt. It is now a middle school. The school's history. |
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Left: Naval Apprentices on Parade on Broadway. The house that is
colored green (red in other versions of this card) is the Wanton-Lyman
Hazard House. For more information about the buildings shown, see this site. Right: Another section of Broadway. |
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Left: From an early view book this shows City Hall looking towards town, instead of the ususal direction seen below.Right: A typical view with the buildings colored. This view of City Hall (built in 1899) is before a fire on March 24, 1925 did significant damage. See the article below. |
 |  This article is from a 1925 issue of "Fire and Water Engineering."Left: is the illustration with the caption, "The Newport, R. I. City Hall, Shortly After the Fire had been Extinguished." At the right is the top of the article. Click that image to read the complete story about the suspected arson and the death of John Mallow. Joseph E. Lawton was the acting Chief. |
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Left: Another early Naval parade along Broadway showing the same view
as the fire, below. Right: the
New City Hall, then Townsend
Industrial School and the New High School (Rogers High) on Broadway.
Note the tree. |
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 These
are photo postcards of the fire in the "Smith Block" of Broadway,
September 14, 1911. On the right is City Hall, then Townsend Industrial
School and Rogers High School. |
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  Far left and right were mailed on September
18th.Left: Broadway, looking north from Bull. The same buildings - unknown date. |
 |  Left: Newport Free Library, Aquidneck Park. It's labeled People's Library on another card.Right: Aquidneck Park - mailed in 1921. |
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 Left
and right: The main entrance of the Newport Hospital, Newport, RI. The
main entrance today is
located on Friendship Street. The hospital was
founded in 1873. These cards are from the very early 1900's.
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 Left:
Cornelius Vanderbilt Pavilion, Newport Hospital.Right: Vanderbilt Ward, Newport Hospital. |
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 Left:
Bird's Eye View from Southwest, Newport Hospital.Right: Hall, Administration Building, Newport Hospital. |
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 Left:
Ledyard Ward for Women. Note the fireplace.Right: Children's Ward, Vanderbilt Pavilion, Newport Hospital. |
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 Left:
Nurses
Home, Newport Hospital. The building is still there, but without the
porch, as is it looks in the card at the right, and it is no longer the nurses home. It faces Broadway.
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