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13 hours agoThe Best Hotels in Newport, Rhode Island
Newport blends Gilded Age grandeur with New England grit, offering hotels from historic opulent mansions to modern coastal inns for seasonal events and relaxation.
The Gilded Age period in US history in the late 19th century was a time of great economic expansion, European immigration, industrialization, and widespread political corruption. Coined by author Mark Twain, it describes an era of social ills masked by materialist excess, arising only a decade after the formal abolition of slavery in 1865.