The Newport Harbor Hotel and Marina - Pier 49 (Newport, Rhode Island)

USA / Rhode Island / Newport / Newport, Rhode Island / America's Cup Avenue, 49
 hotel, restaurant, marina
Originally built by the United States Navy, The Newport's Pier 49 location was known as “Government Landing” for over 60 years. This was the Navy’s Newport harbor side dock. Launches would ferry sailors from their ships anchored in the bay, to the torpedo station at Goat Island, the Training Station at Coasters Harbor Island, or to Fort Adams.

The pier also became the home of the Newport-Jamestown Ferry, as there wasn’t a bridge connecting Jamestown and Newport at that time. The torpedo station on Goat Island was phased out, The Newport Bridge was completed in 1969 and the naval fleet departed Newport in the early 1970’s rendering Government Landing obsolete.

www.newporthotel.com/

Also the site of the wharf of Aaron Lopez in the mid 1700's, (at the foot of Church St.).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Lopez

Many old wharves went the way of the excavator here, all filled in in the name of progress and eventually for the creation of America's Cup Avenue, a list of several mapped in 1876 from south to north - Peckham's Wharf, Eng's Wharf (Lopez Wharf), Bull's Wharf, Champlin's Wharf, Swinburne's Wharf, Sherman's Wharf, and Swan's Wharf, among others, shipyards, coal yards and icehouses, slave pens, pirates and privateers... so much American history in this area is almost hard to fathom.

earlier details of this area can be found at www.historicmapworks.com/Overlay/?m=18607&c=US

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Coordinates:   41°29'15"N   71°18'59"W

Comments

  • When I finally get my millions this place is toast and Queen Anne Park will extend to the water's edge, think small bandshell, and the harbor view access to all... (Olmstead would understand and whole-hardheartedly agree)
  • the hotel was formerly 'Treadway Inn and Marina', built ca; late 1970s
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