Explore Historic Newport


Item Number: 65

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: $420

Online Close: May 26, 2012 11:00 PM EDT

Bid History: 0 bids

Description

You’ll explore 250 years of Newport history when you’re the high bidder on this package!


 


Included is admission for four adults and four children to the Newport Art Museum.  Founded in 1912, it’s located on beautiful Bellevue Avenue. Its main building is a National Historic Landmark – the 1864 John Griswold family summer house. 


Also in this package is a donation from the Newport Restoration Foundation which includes four combination admission tickets to visit two of their historic properties; “Rough Point”, Doris Duke’s mansion and the “Whitehorne House” featuring the Doris Duke collection of 18th century Newport furniture.  Also included are two books: Rough Point: The Newport Home of Doris Duke and Extraordinary Vision: Doris Duke and the Newport Restoration Foundation.


You’ll gain another perspective of the City by the Sea with a 90 minute overview tour trolley tour for two from Viking Tours of Newport.  And, you and your family will also become members of the Newport Historical Society for one year.  Founded in 1954, the Society is the comprehensive resource for the collection, preservation and interpretation of Newport County history.

Donated by

VIKING TOURS OF NEWPORT
NEWPORT RESTORATION FOUNDATION
NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
NEWPORT ART MUSEUM