Old Newport Real Estate

This is the oldest house in Newport. The plaque says it was built in 1690 but that date was altered from 1670 so I'm not sure exactly how old it is, but it's even older than the Old Sloat!
This structure was about two centuries old when Commodore Vanderbilt constructed his "cottage". Newport in general is a cool tourist town...we in Monterey know the drill...nice shoreline, plenty of pubs and restaurants, lotsa shops, some tacky, some upscale. There are lots of fine old residences aside from the cottages. Rhonda and Al said the place hasn't been quite as popular since they lost the America's cup. It resided here from the 1850s until the 1980s...it was bolted to its podium in the local yacht club, such was its permanence...the Newport yacht always beat all comers. Until the Aussies scored a major upset in the early 1980s and carted the cup off to Perth! After that Dennis Connor, who had lost the cup, regained it for the U.S. but by that time he was based in San Diego instead of Newport so the cup went there. Since then the Kiwis have won it a couple of times and it's now held by the Swiss, who don't even have a seacoast! They will be defending it next year in the Mediterranean.