Neighborhood
Staying on Historic Hill, Newport
Historic Hill climbs from Thames Street toward Bellevue Avenue: 18th- and 19th-century houses, Trinity Church's spire, and streets narrow enough that cars slow down on their own.
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Walk times from the front door
- Thames Street: 3 minutes
- Bowen's Wharf: 3 minutes
- The harbor: 5 minutes
- The ferry: 9 minutes
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Quiet street, lively neighborhood
Thames Street is where the bars are. Church Street sits uphill of it, so you hear the town in the evening and lose it by bedtime.
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A house, not an inn
The larger houses on the hill host wedding parties of twelve. 61 Church is a private home for four with on-site parking and a kitchen, a block from the Hotel Viking — one of Newport's most popular wedding venues, so couples and their guests often book the hotel for the party and this house for the quiet nights around it. See the house.