Kingscote

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Top 5% of attractions in Newport
8 / 10

3 expert reviews

“An Elizabethan fantasy complete with Tiffany glass, Kingscote was Newport's first 'cottage' strictly for summer use.”

– Lonely Planet

Fodor's Fodor's
"This Gothic Revival mansion completed in 1841 for Georgia plantation owner Geoge Noble Jones was one of Newport's first summer cottages." Full review
Frommer's Frommer's
"Sea merchant William Henry King... furnished it with porcelains and textiles accumulated in the China trade." Full review
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This mansion (on the right side of the avenue) is a reminder that well-to-do Southern families often had second homes