Before the introduction of the automobile with taxi stands and rent-a-car agencies, getting around Newport required some planning. If you did not have your own stable and carriage house, transportation was available at several livery, sale and boarding stables around town, to be rented by the day or season. The largest concentration was in the Freebody Park area, behind the Ocean House Hotel.
Stable advertisements from 1893 Newport City Directory, from the NHS collection.
1907 City Atlas showing stables and carriages houses denoted by an X on the building footprint in the Freebody Park area, from the NHS collection.