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.
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