In the City by the Sea, a Civic Upswing is Underway

In the City by the Sea, a Civic Upswing is Underway

If you arrive in Newport, Rhode Island via the long bridges from the mainland that stretch across Narragansett Bay, you are immediately faced with a choice: Head south, and you’ll find the legendary mansions of the Gilded Age—massive marble palaces that were once the summer playgrounds of a bygone era’s titans of industry. You’ll see the clapboard homes of an earlier age of opulence, when Newport was an epicenter of colonial-era capitalism—and, …