Resources & Maps

Selected Readings

Mapping the Newport Experience: A History of the City’s Urban Development ︎

John Tschirch

“The members Rose and Received Them”: African American Church Membership of Hotel Era Newport ︎

Melissa Drake

The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island

Antoinette Downing & Vincent J. Scully, Jr.
2nd ed. New York: Clarkson Potter, 1967

The Sense of Newport

Henry James
Harper’s Monthly Magazine, August 1906

The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings through History

Spiro Kostof
New York: Bullfinch Press, 1991

General Maps of Newport

1712Handwritten map of the town of Newport, drawn by John Mumford, 1712 (Newport Historical Society, 2006.8)

1777Manuscript map of the city and harbor of Newport drawn by Ezra Stiles, August 9, 1758 (Redwood Library & Athenaeum)

1777Map of Newport surveyed by Charles Blaskowitz. Engraved and published by William Faden, September 1, 1777 (Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library)

1780Map of the City, Port, and Harbor of Newport, with Part of Rhode Island, Occupied by the French Army under the command of Monsieur Count de Rochambeau and the French Squadron Commanded by Monsieur le Chevalier Destouches, circa 1780 (Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division)

1781A Plan of the Town of Newport in the Province of Rhode Island, drawn by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, 1781 (Map reproduction courtesy of Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library )

Maps of Washington Square

1712Detail from handwritten map of the town of Newport, drawn by John Mumford, 1712 (Newport Historical Society, 2006.8 )

1777Detail from map of Newport surveyed by Charles Blaskowitz. Engraved and published by William Farden, September 1, 1777 (Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library)

1850Detail from map of the City of Newport by M. Dripps, 1850 (Newport Historical Society )

1859Detail from a map of the City of Newport by M. Dripps and B.I. Tilley, 1859 (Newport Historical Society)

1876Detail from Plate E of City Atlas of Newport by G.M. Hopkins, 1876 (Newport Historical Society)

1876Detail from Plate J of City Atlas of Newport by G.M. Hopkins, 1876(Newport Historical Society)

1883 Detail from Plate 10 of City Atlas of Newport by G.M. Hopkins, 1883 (Newport Historical Society)

1883Detail from Plate 5 of City Atlas of Newport by G.M. Hopkins, 1883 (Newport Historical Society)

1883 Detail from Plate 8 of City Atlas of Newport by G.M. Hopkins, 1883 (Newport Historical Society )

1893Detail from Plate N of Atlas of the City of Newport by L.J. Richards & Co., 1893 (Newport Historical Society)

1907Detail from Plate 2 of Atlas of the City of Newport by L.J. Richards & Co., 1907 (Newport Historical Society)

1907Detail from Plate 3 of Atlas of the City of Newport by L.J. Richards & Co., 1907 (Newport Historical Society )

1921Detail from Plate 7 of Atlas of Newport, Jamestown, Middletown, and Portsmouth by Sanborn Map Co., 1921 (Newport Historical Society)

This project is made possible by the generous support of Elizabeth "Lisette" Prince and the Buchanan Burnham Endowment for Visiting Scholars. All images are from the collections of the Newport Historical Society unless otherwise noted.