Thames Street is a historic street in Newport, Rhode Island that is one of the oldest continuously used streets in the state. It remains the primary street in downtown Newport and runs parallel along the waterfront.
6-565: The Newport Steam Factory is an historic building at 449 Thames Street in Newport, Rhode Island . It is a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story stone structure, 120 feet (37 m) by 48 feet (15 m). It was built in 1831 by a group of local businessmen in an effort to boost the local economy, which had suffered since the British occupation during the American Revolutionary War . The building
12-462: A Quaker settlement in the area near Easton's Point . Dozens of colonial buildings survive along the street and many are still used for commercial purposes. The southern part of Thames Street was historically home to a large Irish population in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Today local residents pronounce the street name with a soft "th" and which rhymes with "names" rather than the British pronunciation of "temz." Today Thames Street remains
18-458: The main street in downtown Newport today and numerous restaurants, inns and stores abut it. Thames Street runs for 1.5 miles (2 kilometers) through the center of Newport, beginning at Ellery Park at the intersection of Poplar and Farewell Streets and ending in the "Fifth Ward" neighborhood at the intersection of Morton Avenue and Carroll Avenue. It is a one-way southbound road for most of its length, with two exceptions. There are three sections of
24-410: The street: The first runs from Ellery Park to West Marlborough Street through the city's Kerry Hill neighborhood. The second, known to locals as "Upper Thames", runs from West Marlborough to the city Post Office at the intersection of Memorial Boulevard and America's Cup Avenue. The street is paved with stone blocks (cobble stones) from the intersection with Touro Street until the post office. Upper Thames
30-641: Was one of Newport's original two streets officially laid out in Newport in 1654 and providing access to the city's many wharfs. The street takes its name from the River Thames in London , England, an area from which many of the early colonists migrated. The northern part of Thames Street originates near the Common Burying Ground and passes through several blocks of what was in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
36-747: Was used as a cotton mill until 1857. In 1892 it was purchased by the Newport Illuminating Company. It is now part of the International Yacht Restoration School . The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. This article about a Registered Historic Place in Newport County , Rhode Island is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Thames Street (Rhode Island) Thames Street (along with Marlborough Street)
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