Newport

I just fell in love with Newport, Rhode Island. This is the cutest town to walk around downtown and see the mansions. I had a great adventure strolling back in time in Newport. Newport is known as a New England summer resort and famous for its mansions.

Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, wealthy southern planters seeking to escape the heat began to build summer cottages on Bellevue Avenue. By the turn of the 20th century, many of the nation's wealthiest families were summering in Newport, including the Vanderbilt, Astor, and the Widener family, who constructed the largest "cottages", such as The Breakers. They resided for a brief social season in grand, gilded mansions with elaborate receiving rooms, dining rooms, music rooms, and ballrooms—but with few bedrooms, since the guests were expected to have "cottages" of their own.