Rough Point Museum

Rough Point Museum is a museum in Newport County, Rhode Island. Rough Point Museum is situated nearby to the museum Belcourt of Newport, as well as near the house Miramar.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rough Point and Marble House.

Rough Point

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Rough Point is one of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, now open to the public as a museum. It is an English Manorial style home designed by architectural firm Peabody & Stearns for Frederick William Vanderbilt.

Marble House

Museum

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Marble House is a Gilded Age mansion located at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It was built from 1888 to 1892 as a summer cottage for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt and was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Beaux Arts style. Marble House is situated 2,500 feet north of Rough Point Museum.

Rovensky Park

Park

Rovensky Park is a historic park at the corner of Bellevue Avenue and Rovensky Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. The park grounds were created in 1852, and the park was purchased by the Preservation Society of Newport County in 1959 with $175,000 grant donated by John E. Rovensky Park is situated 1,900 feet north of Rough Point Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newport and Jamestown.

Newport

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Newport is a beautiful seaside city in Rhode Island that is famous for its genteel mansions and a rich history of yachting, golf, and tennis. With a population of only 25,000, this scenic resort town punches well above its weight and was known as the "Summer White House" throughout the 1950s and 60s.

Jamestown

Photo: Kzirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jamestown is a village on Conanicut Island, a small parcel of land that connects mainland Rhode Island to Aquidneck Island in Narragansett Bay. Jamestown is 25 miles south of Providence and offers plenty of shopping, dining and recreation.

Rough Point Museum

Type: Museum
Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
Location: Newport County, Rhode Island, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.45512° or 41° 27′ 18″ north

Longitude

-71.30537° or 71° 18′ 19″ west

Operator

Newport Restoration Foundation

Open location code

87HCFM4V+2V

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1225567916

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=tourism

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Belcourt of Newport and Miramar.

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