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DETAIL VIEW OF STAIRS AT ARCH ENTRANCE ON EAST SIDE OF NORTH WALL - Fort Adams, Newport Neck, Newport, Newport County, RI
Photographer
Boucher, Jack E.
Title
DETAIL VIEW OF STAIRS AT ARCH ENTRANCE ON EAST SIDE OF NORTH WALL - Fort Adams, Newport Neck, Newport, Newport County, RI
Description
Totten, Joseph G., Architect; Blutstein, Janet, transmitter; Price, Virginia B, transmitter
Depicted place Rhode Island; Newport County; Newport
Date 1985
date QS:P571,+1985-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HABS RI,3-NEWP,54-84
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Fort Adams, one of principal coastal defenses along the Atlantic, was built between 1824 and 1857, replacing Revolutionary defenses. Situated on a point at the entrance to Newport harbor, it is the principal installation of a series of fortifications built to control entrance to Narragansett Bay. The fort consists of an irregular pentagonal masonry main-work with sides up to 900 feet long. Two- and three-tiered casements high, it has granite walls and brick vaulting. On a point with water on three sides, the fort has extensive landward works, and a large granite redoubt beyond the outworks. The complex includes interesting additions and alterations in the area of the main-work, and handsome late-nineteenth century residential buildings beyond the outworks. The present Fort Adams never saw military action, but the Naval Academy was moved there during the Civil War, and the summer White House was located there during the Eisenhower Administration. The Army transferred the fort to the Navy in 1953, and the area of the main-work was transferred to the State of Rhode Island in 1964 to be developed for historical and recreational purposes.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N129
  • Survey number: HABS RI-347
  • Building/structure dates: 18q2 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1906 Subsequent Work
References

This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 70000014.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ri0349.photos.144733p
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Object location41° 29′ 24″ N, 71° 18′ 47.98″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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