Ocean Drive Historic District
Added to the National Register in 1976, and a National Historic Landmark.
The record
| Property type | Historic district |
| Address | Ocean Dr., Newport, RI |
| County | Newport County |
| Listed | May 11, 1976 |
| Listed for | Community planning, Landscape architecture, Conservation, Architecture, Social history |
| Level of significance | National |
| Reference number | 76000048 |
| Designations | National Historic Landmark |
The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗
Visiting
| Address | Ocean Dr., Newport, RI |
| Coordinates | 41.4550° N, 71.3325° W · Directions ↗ |
| Also in Newport | 69 listed places in Newport → · walking tour → |
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Map
Nearby in Newport County
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Public land around it
| Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge ↗National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | About 5 miles away245 acres |
Wilderness Atlas publishes a centroid and an acreage for each unit, not a boundary line. Distance here is measured to a circle of the same area drawn around that centroid, so treat it as roughly right rather than surveyed.
Local history books for Newport
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Rhode Island travel guides
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Reference
Questions people ask
When was Ocean Drive Historic District listed on the National Register?
May 11, 1976. It is also a National Historic Landmark, the higher of the two designations.
Source: National Park Service
Where is Ocean Drive Historic District?
Ocean Dr., Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island.
Source: National Park Service
Where is the nomination form for Ocean Drive Historic District?
The National Archives holds the nomination form, the document that made the case for listing.
Source: National Archives
Sources
Name, location, type and dates come from the National Register office's spreadsheet of listed properties, because the Park Service's spatial data does not carry this listing. The map point comes from Wikidata. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 76000048. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The nomination form and photographs ↗ at NPGallery are the original nomination as filed with the National Park Service, and the form is often the best description of the place.