Newport

ISBN-13: 9780738537351 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 128 str.

Rob Lewis

Opis

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 the Revolutionary War and subsequent three-year British occupation. Despite the fact that more than one-third of existing homes in Newport were destroyed by the British during their stay, Newport today still has the largest number of eighteenth-century homes of all cities in the United States. In 1968, the Newport Restoration
Foundation was founded by tobacco heiress Doris Duke to preserve, protect, and restore the city s eighteenth and nineteenth-century architecture. The foundation s extensive photographic archives have been made available to area resident and modern-day photographer Rob Lewis in the creation of this new and exciting photographic history."