Nothing says Gilded Age like beautiful, vast, and private gardens. The Blue Garden is open to the public once a week - every Thursday from June 15 - October 9. The Olmsted Brothers firm originally designed the property in 1908, after many years of neglect it fell into disrepair and was later restored in 2014 to its original glory.

The garden incorporates a palette of blues and purples and has something in bloom each month the garden is open. The Blue Garden is known today as a classic example of American landscape art and a triumph of historic preservation. There are three tours a day, exclusively on Thursdays, and costs $20 per person.

Reservations will be available online beginning May 1, 2025. 

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Fans of HBO's "The Gilded Age" will love this guided tour of locations in the Newport Mansions where the show was filmed. 

Interested now? Find an episode deep-dive breakdown here.

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Available at any open property during tour hours.

The Newport Mansions invite their guests to bring a picnic to enjoy on the grounds as part of their Newport Mansions experience. Bring your own picnic basket, cooler, blankets, and lawn chairs, and choose the perfect spot to savor the million-dollar view! Available to Preservation Society members and Newport Mansions tour ticket holders.

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Enjoy reading in a library visited by Gilded Age greats.

Literary legends like Edith Wharton, Henry James, and poet Julia Ward, who also co-founded the American Woman Suffrage Association, visited the library. Today the library is free to the public and offers lectures, exhibitions, fine arts displays, and other educational activities.

ICYMI: The Redwood Library and Athenaeum celebrated its 275^th birthday in 2022.

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Escape to the Gilded Age and walk in the steps of the ladies of Bellevue Avenue and beyond. 

The HBO® Gilded Age Locations Tour

The secret is out. Set in the 1880s, the HBO® smash hit The Gilded Age® (both seasons 1 and 2) was filmed largely in Newport. Let Newport Jaguar Tours, with a private guided tour in a classic Jaguar motorcar, show you where key scenes were filmed, including difficult-to-find series’ locations. With insider knowledge, once you get the lay of our own Hollywood land, we can even help you with guidance to secure interior location tours. This is a half or full-day tour, personally designed for you. 

The Scandalous Newport Tour

Get the Gilded Age scoop while being driven around in a Jaguar. Your guide and driver will share some of the more scandalous stories surrounding Newport families during this era. The Newport Jaguar Tours’ fleet of classic British motorcars offers guided private tours. The local Newport guides have extensive knowledge about the area and era.

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Reopening after museum renovations on May 15, 2025. 

Don’t miss a chance to experience a sport most people have only read about or seen on television. Visit The International Tennis Hall of Fame for some friendly competition. Step back in time on the grass grounds where croquet enthusiasts have been playing since the late 19^th century.

A croquet pro will oversee this classic lawn game played on the property’s historic grass courts. Also, take the opportunity to play tennis on three grass courts open to the public.

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Earn your sea legs aboard the 1929 classic motor yacht, Elco (Rum Runner II), with Classic Cruises of Newport. Rum Runner II was built in 1929 during the height of Prohibition, for the purpose of smuggling cases of rum and other contraband alcohol along the East Coast. 

Today, she is fully restored and offers the luxury of a classic motor yacht and the thrill of a high-speed bandit—with a history all her own.

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GILDED AGE PUNCH BOWL

Step into the parlor or the library at the sophisticated Vanderbilt Hotel and order one of The Vanderbilt's specialty cocktails. Choose from a signature punch bowl or a seasonal bubbly large-format aperitif, which pays homage to cocktails from the Gilded Age infused with The Vanderbilt's playful spirit.

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DISCOVER THE RESERVE ROOM

A true one-of-a-kind experience here in Newport.

Enter The Reserve Room at The Vanderbilt, which has been transformed into an interactive whisky haven. Think: A game of billiards, exclusive cocktails and pours of The Macallan, and a touch of modern Gilded Age glamour for an authentic experience. 

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The Newport Historical Society offers a variety of tours including one about Newport’s Gilded Age summer colony and how the city transformed socially and economically during that period. Learn how Newport supported and encouraged religious freedom. 

Find out about the early history of Newport’s people of color, enslaved and free. You can pack in a lot of history in these tours that range from 60 to 90 minutes. Step outside and learn about Newport’s rich and storied history.

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The Breakers is the grandest of Newport's summer "cottages" and a symbol of the Vanderbilt family's social and financial preeminence in turn of the century America.

Today, visitors can experience both mansion and grounds tours, special events, and The Breakers Café, a small cafe at the Welcome Center located on-site. 

Please note: Timed Ticketing at The Breakers Started February 24th, for more information, click here. 

Welcome to the summer retreat of Philadelphia coal magnate Mr. and Mrs. Edward Julius Berwind who made his fortune in the coal industry. The Elms, a 48-room mansion on historic Bellevue Avenue, was modeled after the mid-18th-century French chateau d'Asnieres (c.1750) outside Paris. 

The Elms offers both a mansion tour, with access to the grounds, and a servant life tour for visitors. 

Marble House was a social and architectural landmark that set the pace for Newport's subsequent transformation from a quiet summer colony of wooden houses to the legendary resort of opulent stone palaces at the time it was built between 1888 and 1892.

Visitors can experience tours, special events, and afternoon tea in the Chinese Tea House at Marble House.

Commissioned by Nevada silver heiress Theresa Fair Oelrichs in 1899, architect Stanford White modeled Rosecliff after the Grand Trianon, the garden retreat of French kings at Versailles. Scenes from several films have been shot on location at Rosecliff, including The Great Gatsby, True Lies, Amistad, and 27 Dresses. 

Today, visitors can experience tours, special exhibits, private events, and the iconic Newport Flower Show at this wondrous mansion. 

Chateau-sur-Mer is considered one of the first great mansions in Newport. It was the most palatial residence in Newport from its completion in 1852 until the appearance of the Vanderbilt houses in the 1890s, and was originally built as an Italianate-style villa for China trade merchant William Shepard Wetmore. When Mr. Wetmore died in 1862, his son left architect Richard Morris Hunt to remodel and redecorate the estate in the Second Empire French style. Chateau-sur-Mer's grand scale and lavish parties are said to have ushered in the Gilded Age of Newport. 

The house was purchased by the Preservation Society in 1969 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006.