From Homes of the Rich:
Location: 254 Ocean Avenue, Newport, RI
Square Footage: 15,851
Bedrooms & Bathrooms: 8 bedrooms & 14 bathrooms
Price: $19,000,000
Seafair is a historic gated waterfront estate located at 254 Ocean
Avenue in Newport, RI and is situated on 9 acres. It was built in 1936
and features a brick and limestone facade with slate roof.
It boasts symmetrical curved east and west wings with a 3-car garage on
each side and a motor court with fountain in the middle....MORE
From
Friends of the Waterfront, a quick look at the hood:
The Historic Ten Mile
Drive
1. Starts at The Elms on Bellevue
Ave.[just south of Memorial Blvd.] and runs south to Narragansett Ave. [there
is a red light at this intersection].
2. Turn left [east] onto
Narragansett Ave. and drive down to Ochre Point Ave. [[[while you are on
Narragansett Ave. you may like to continue to the end of the street to visit
the famous Forty Steps on Cliff Walk. If you can find a parking space this is
probably the best segment of Cliff Walk and you can walk along the ocean side
of Ochre Point Ave. through the campus of Salve University and through the gate
to the Breakers – 20 min. round trip.]]]
3. Turn right onto
Ochre Point Ave. where a number of the historic estates are located and now
owned and used by Salve Regina University:
Ochre
Court,
Vinland,
Vinland
Gate House — and where the
The Breakers mansion
is.
4. When you reach the end of Ochre Point Ave. turn right [west]
on Ruggles Ave. to drive by
Ochre
Lodge, Althrope Carriage
House,
Althrope,
Fairhome
Carriage House, and
Stoneacre
Carriage House [more of the estates currently used by Salve
University].
5. At the intersection of Ruggles and Bellevue Ave.
[Fairlawn]
turn left [south] on Bellevue Ave to drive by
Beechwood,
Marble House,
Rosecliff,
Belcourt
Castle, and
Rough
Point. For an illustrated map segment dated 1939
click here.
6. At the end of Bellevue
Ave. [the Avenue itself turns right and continues to a small rotary drive
at the end of Cliff Walk where the secret, but public, Reject Beach is]. Turn
right onto Coggeshall Ave. and take the first left onto Ocean Ave.
7. On Ocean Ave. drive along the ocean by Bailey's Beach [private], Hazard Beach [private] and
Gooseberry Beach [open to the public, pay parking]. Continue on by the "Cove,"
[for a 360-degree photo
of the "Cove" These are large photo
files and may take a minute or two to load], and then
King's Beach
[state], Brenton
State Park
[360 of Brenton
Park], and the
Inn at
Castle Hill. [[[Brenton State Park is a large park with decent parking
and is great to spend a couple of hours to picnic or sail a kite or just hang
out on the rocks and enjoy the ocean. ]]]
8. Turn right onto
Castle Hill Ave., drive north to the first intersection and go left onto Ridge
Rd. to go by the U.S. Coast
Guard Station and past Ocean Cliff.
9. At the end of Ridge Rd. go left onto Harrison Ave.
to go by Hammersmith Farm [Jackie Kennedy's summer home which unfortunately is
no longer open to the public] and Ft.
Adams. Ft. Adams is an ideal place to view Newport Harbor, and investigate
Rhode Island Public Sailing Center
Sail Newport
and the Museum of Yachting. The Fort is open
for tours. The view of Newport is spectacular.
10. At the next
intersection turn left and then left again onto Halidon Ave. to go by the
New York Yacht Club. For this illustrated map
segment dated 1939 click here.
. .11. Continue right onto Wellington Ave. to go by
the Ida Lewis Yacht Club [Lime Rock Light] and
Newport's King Park [for a 360 photo of the park click here] with its
statue of
Rochambeau who brought the French army to Newport to help Washington win
the Revolutionary War. King Park is the southern end of Newport Harbor and the
Newport Harbor Walk. [360 of King Park]
Now you are back in
downtown Newport and traveled as interesting a ten miles as you can!
