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A Guide To Newport's Cliff Walk | 
 enlarge | Author: Ed Morris
Publisher: Ed Morris
Category: Book
Buy Used: $109.65
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1025896
Media: Paperback
Pages: 90
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 0.3
ISBN: 0970865805
EAN: 9780970865809
ASIN: 0970865805
Publication Date: May 2000
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Book Description
It animates the History of the Gilded Age Era along this three-and-one-half-mile path, 30 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, by telling the story, not only of the path and of the development of Bellevue Avenue, but also that of 23 cottages along it: tales of their extraordinary owners: the Vanderbilts, the Astors, the Belmonts, their friends...their fortunes...their frailties and their extraordinary architects. It includes a numbered map to guide the visitor--with margin numbers in the text to correspond. There are photos of 23 mansions as well as six 2-page photo spreads, illustrating that Gilded Age Social Life. More than one third of tourists visiting Newport, R.I., explore at least a part of Cliff Walk during their stay. The author researched this material to inaugurate the Newport Historical Society's two-mile, guided tour of this walk--then expanded it into this book. It features humor in addition to historical facts. More than 2,000 copies have been sold since publication in May, 2000.
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A guide to Newport's Cliff Walk December 1, 2006
Arnold M. Trifilo
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
New York High Society beginning in the 1860'sto World WarI built their summer Palaces in Newport, RI along Belleview Avenue along the fabled Cliff Walk.
"A Guide to Newports Cliff Walk" tells about this "Gilded Age" summer resort-- The Astors, the Vanderbilts, the Belmonts-- their fortunes their foibles their architects, their architectural styles.
But this 90 page illustrated guidebook also ties these Newport developments to the contemporaneous social, architectural and even political hapennings of this time in New York City Itself.
It mixes in the exposure of Boss Tweed, the election of Teddy Roosevelt as president, the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, the Washington Memorial Arch the fight to give voting rights to women and the assassination of architect Standford White of the roof garden of the first Madison Square Garden Building which he had built!
With 29 illustrations and a healthy dose of facts the guide book will give any New York tourist a clear insight into the Holy of Holies of High Society during the American Industrial Revolution!
Newport's Cliff Walk Mansions: Architects and Residents December 17, 2005
Francis J. Szczepaniak (Middletown, RI USA)
Ed Morris brings the varied architectural structures along Newport's Cliff Walk to life by providing brief, often amusing insights of the personalities who comprised this exclusive neighborhood. His commentary on the personal "eccentricities" of several members of this neighborhood is especially entertaining. A must buy for anyone who plans to visit Newport's Cliff Walk and desires to know the history of who built and who lived in this Guilded Age oriented neighbornood!
 Interesting and Entertaining February 23, 2005
Bill Douglas (Portsmouth, RI USA)
Ed Morris, in this self-published work, offers a detailed 2-mile jaunt around Newport's famed Cliff Walk and surrounding neighborhood. Along the way, he links Newport and some of her better known summer residents to one of American history's most dramatic and interesting eras. Morris introduces his readers to the architectural, industrial, and socially ambitious giants of turn of the century America as he shares tales of their Newport-styled approach to the "strenuous business of leisure." This book is chock-full of anecdotes that share Morris' unique insights with locals and visitors alike.
A pleasurable read September 7, 2004
Kimmie (Jamestown, RI USA)
Ed Morris has done a wonderful job in bringing Newport's history to life! It really is a must have for anyone who is thinking about visiting Newport. The cliff walk is on a beautiful stretch of coastline, and as I was reading the book, I felt as if I was given access to all of the wonderful mansions along the way. Thank you for letting me take a glimpse over the hedges of Newport's elite and seeing how the other half lived!!!
Informative and Interesting July 4, 2002
Barbara Peckham (Portsmouth, RI)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Anyone walking along this gorgeous path has wondered about the families,this book tells about the people and the history in a most interesting manner. A very well written book.
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