Historic Sites Tours
Offered daily February 14-23, 2014 11am-3pm
During the 2014 Newport Winter Festival, tour one of the Newport Historical Society’s colonial-era sites.
- The Colony House, built in 1739, was a center for Rhode Island’s colonial government and houses a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington.
- Visit the Great Friends Meeting House and explore Rhode Island’s oldest house of worship, built for the Society of Friends in 1699.
- The c.1697 Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House, Newport’s oldest house museum, features the Winter Festival family fun scavenger hunt “What’s Wrong with This Picture?”
- View the country’s oldest Seventh Day Baptist Meeting House, built in 1730. Limited admission.
Tours depart from the Brick Market: Museum & Shop, 127 Thames Street, and cost $8 per person, $6 with the Winter Festival button, free for NHS members. Reservations recommended, 401-841-8770.
