Rhode Island - Providence, State House (Capitol Building)

Rhode Island State House
Providence, R.I.

Constructed of white Georgia marble, the State House, also called the State Capitol, rises 235 ft. to the statue of "The Independent Man" at the top. The unsupported marble dome is one of only four of this design in the world.  The massive marble structure was designed by Charles Follen McKim of New York.  More that 13 hundred tons of iron floor beams and 15 million bricks were used in its construction.

The Independent man, sculpted by George Brewster, cast by Gorham and lifted in place on Dec. 18, 1899.
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Rhode Island - Newport, The Breakers Mansion

The Breakers - Ochre Point Ave.
Newport, Rhode Island

The Breakers has become the state's number one tourist attraction since it was opened by the Preservation Society of Newport in 1948.  The design follows that of the north Italian palaces with seventy rooms on the four floors arranged around a huge central hall.  Its location faces the Atlantic Ocean from Ochre Point on the famous Cliff Walk.
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The Breakers is a Vanderbilt mansion located on the Atlantic Ocean. It is a National Historic Landmark, and is owned and operated by the Preservation Society of Newport County.

It was built as the Newport summer home of Cornelius Vanderbilt II, a member of the wealthy United States Vanderbilt family. Designed by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt, the 70-room mansion boasts approximately 65,000 sq ft. of living space. The home was constructed between 1893 and 1895 at a cost of more than $7 million (approximately $200 million in today's dollars adjusted for inflation). 

Rhode Island - Prudence Island

Celebrate
National Postcard Week and
Prudence Island Summers
May 1-7, 2011

Summer Flowers
Sandy Point Light and Freighter
The Old Dock
Sunset, West Side

Compliments of Lynn G's Postcards

Rhode Island - Newport, U.S.S Constellation

U.S.S. Constellation Dressed for Queen Elizabeth's Birthday during visit of H.M.S. York.  Newport Rhode Island in 1937

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USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war (warship with a single gun deck). It is the last sail-only warship designed and built by the U.S. Navy.

From 1855-1858 Constellation performed largely diplomatic duties as part of the US Mediterranean Squadron.
She was flagship of the USN African Squadron from 1859-1861. In this period she disrupted the African slave trade by interdicting three slave ships and releasing the imprisoned Africans.

After the Civil War Constellation saw various duties such as carrying famine relief stores to Ireland and exhibits to the Paris Exposition Universelle (1878). She also spent a number of years as a receiving ship.

Constellation became a training ship in 1894 for the Naval Training Center in Newport, Rhode Island where she helped train more than 60,000 recruits during World War I.

Decommissioned in 1933, Constellation was recommissioned as a national symbol in 1940 by President Franklin Roosevelt.

Constellation was again decommissioned on 4 February 1955 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 15 August 1955 — about 100 years and 2 weeks from her first commissioning. She was taken to her permanent berth in Baltimore, Maryland and designated a National Historic Landmark on 23 May 1963.

She is the last existing American Civil War-era naval vessel and was one of the last sail-powered warships built by the U.S. Navy.

In 1994 Constellation was condemned as an unsafe vessel. She was towed to drydock at Fort McHenry in 1996, and a $9-million restoration project was completed in July 1999.

On 26 October 2004 Constellation made her first trip out of Baltimore's Inner Harbor since 1955. The trip to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, lasting six days, marked the ship's first trip to the city in 111 years.

Today tours are regularly available, self-guided or with the assistance of staff.