Marble House
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Marble House is a museum in Rhode Island, at a recorded elevation of 12 m. Yorker Hill stands 98 m to the west-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Rovensky Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Paradise Ave and Other Roads passes 2.8 miles off.
The story
Marble House is a Gilded Age mansion located at 596 Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It was built from 1888 to 1892 as a summer cottage for Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt and was designed by Richard Morris Hunt in the Beaux Arts style. It was unparalleled in opulence for an American house when it was completed in 1892. Its temple-front portico has been compared to that of the White House. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006. It is now open to the public as a museum run by the Newport Preservation Society.
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Wikidata Q2650982, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 12 m
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 2.8 mi off the Paradise Ave and Other Roads
- 2.0 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 12.7 mi off the Ministerial Road
- 13.2 mi off the Route 114 and High Street
Overlooks nearby
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 20 mi
- Prospect Terrace Viewpoint · 26 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Rovensky Park: 0.2 mi
- Murphy Field: 0.7 mi
- Ballard Park: 1.0 mi
- Spencer Park: 1.1 mi
- King Park: 1.3 mi
- Rosecliff Mansion: 0.2 mi
- Belcourt of Newport: 0.3 mi
- Rough Point Museum: 0.5 mi
- National Museum of American Illustration: 0.5 mi
- Chateau-sur-Mer Mansion: 0.6 mi
- Oliver Perry Monument: 2.0 mi
- Fort Adams: 2.0 mi
- USS Bennington Memorial: 2.2 mi
- Archibald Gracie Lawence memorial stone: 2.6 mi
- EgyptAir Flight 990 Memorial: 2.7 mi
- Castle Hill: 2.9 mi
- Fort Wetherill: 2.9 mi
- Bliss Hill: 3.2 mi
- Miantonomi Hill: 3.3 mi
- Beacon Hill: 3.5 mi
- Racquet Road Wildlife Refuge: 3.4 mi
- Marsh Meadows Wildlife Preserve: 4.8 mi
- Wilbour Woods: 7.0 mi
- John C. Whitehead Preserve: 7.3 mi
- High Hill Point: 7.5 mi
- Belmont Beach: 0.4 mi
- Rejects Beach: 0.5 mi
- Bailey Beach: 0.6 mi
- Gooseberry Beach: 0.9 mi
- Hazard Beach: 1.0 mi
- Rough Point Mansion: 0.5 mi
- Breakers Stable & Carriage House: 0.5 mi
- Newport Mansions Preservation Society: 0.9 mi
- Newport Cliff Walk – Forty Steps: 1.0 mi
- International Tennis Hall of Fame: 1.4 mi
- Rochambeau Statue and Monument: 1.3 mi
- Matthew Perry Monument: 1.6 mi
- Channing Truro Statue: 1.6 mi
- Grafitti Tunnel: 9.3 mi
- Rhody the Ram: 11.5 mi
- The Blue Garden: 1.6 mi
- Herb Garden: 6.4 mi
- Burchard Triangle: 6.9 mi
- Ecological Oasis: 7.6 mi
- Heber W. Youngken Medicinal Garden: 11.6 mi
- Marys Seat: 1.6 mi
- The Bluff: 2.4 mi
- Rams Head: 3.0 mi
- Lion Head: 4.4 mi
- Ferry Cliff: 13.1 mi
- Beavertail Light: 4.9 mi
- 1755 Lighthouse Foundation: 4.9 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 22.8 mi
- Southeast Lighthouse: 24.9 mi
- Block Island Southeast Light: 24.9 mi
- Big Beach: 17.5 mi
- Little Beach: 17.8 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 19.6 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 19.7 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 19.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 20.0 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 21.2 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 21.4 mi
- Plum Point Spring: 7.5 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 15.0 mi
- Factory Pond: 16.0 mi
- The Falls: 8.0 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 15.4 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 15.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.0 miles of Marble House. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorker Hill | WNW 290° | 98 m | 12.8 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | WNW 283° | 97 m | 13.1 mi |
| Pocasset Hill | NNE 24° | 95 m | 14.4 mi |
| Sherman Hill | WNW 285° | 88 m | 11.2 mi |
| Slate Hill | NNE 21° | 87 m | 5.8 mi |
| Tefft Hill | W 271° | 78 m | 12.0 mi |
| Congdon Hill | WNW 295° | 75 m | 10.4 mi |
| Exeter Hill | WNW 302° | 75 m | 14.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:50 | 18:21 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:12 | 19:41 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:08 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 15:35 | 16:19 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 39 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 71 | 71 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Newport Rose, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Newport · 2 mi
- Brenton Point State Park · 3 mi
- Middletown · 4 mi
- Jamestown · 5 mi
- Dutch Island · 6 mi
- Narragansett · 7 mi
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