The Kay Street–Catherine Street–Old Beach Road Historic District is a

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. The area is located north of Newport's well-known

Bellevue Avenue The Bellevue Avenue Historic District is located along and around Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Its property is almost exclusively residential, including many of the Gilded Age mansions built as summer retreats aroun ...

, and encompasses an area that was developed residentially between about 1830 and 1890, for the most part before the

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mansions were built further south. The district is bounded on the south by Memorial Boulevard, on the east by Easton's Pond, on the west by Bellevue Avenue and Kay and Bull Streets, and on the north by Broadway, Rhode Island Avenue, Prairie Avenue, and Champlin Street. The district was added to the

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on May 22, 1973, with a boundary decrease in 2018. Notable properties that are included in this district are the

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, a National Historic Site, the

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and the John Griswold House, both

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s, and the Newport Tower. The district also overlaps a portion of the Newport Historic District, a

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Historic districts in Newport, Rhode Island 1830 establishments in Rhode Island Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island National Register of Historic Places in Newport County, Rhode Island {{NewportCountyRI-NRHP-stub

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