Oak Glen, Portsmouth

Name: Oak Glen
Address: Portsmouth, United States

#10 among attractions in Portsmouth

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Oak Glen is a historic house at 745 Union Street in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a highly pitched gambrel roof and jerkin-headed gable ends. The house was built about 1870 by Samuel and Julia Ward Howe as a summer retreat. The ell attached to the rear of the house is a c. 1850 cottage which was standing on the site when the Howes purchased the property. After Samuel Howe died in 1876, Julia made this her permanent home. She died here on October 17, 1910, at the age of 91. ()

Coordinates: 41°33'33"N, 71°16'53"W

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South PortsmouthPortsmouth United States

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Oak Glen – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Newport Casino, Cardines Field, Miantonomi Memorial Park, Newport National Golf Club.

5.5 miS
Nightlife, Gambling, Casino
Newport Casino, Newport
139 min walk • The Newport Casino is an athletic complex and recreation center located at 180-200 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island in the Bellevue Avenue/Casino Historic District.
5.1 miS
Arenas and stadiums, Sport venue, Sport
Cardines Field, Newport
129 min walk • Cardines Field is a baseball stadium located at 20 America’s Cup Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. It is believed to be one of the oldest ballparks in the United States and has been called "a small urban gem of a ballpark".
3.7 miSW
Park, Nature and wildlife
Miantonomi Memorial Park, Newport
95 min walk • Miantonomi Memorial Park is a public park between Hillside Avenue and Girard Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island. The Narragansett Indians used the area around the park for hundreds of years and the park is named after Sachem, or Chief, Miantonomi.
2.3 miSE
41°31'53"N • 71°15'31"W
Newport National Golf Club, Middletown
58 min walk • Outdoor activities, Golf
6.4 miSW
Museum, Classes and workshops, Civic center
Arts Center, Jamestown
163 min walk • Jamestown Art Center is a non-profit arts organization with a gallery, art studios, education facilities, and event space in a renovated boat repair shop, located at 18 Valley Street in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
2.8 miN
Garden, Specialty museum, Park
Green Animals Topiary Garden, Portsmouth
73 min walk • The Green Animals Topiary Garden, located in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, is the oldest and most northern topiary garden in the United States. The 7-acre estate overlooks the Narragansett Bay. It contains a large collection of topiaries including eighty sculptured trees.
1.3 miE
History museum, Museum
Union Church, Portsmouth
34 min walk • The Union Church is an historic church and local history museum owned by the Portsmouth Historical Society at 870 East Main Road at Union Street in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.
0.6 miSW
Historical place, Museum, History museum
Prescott Farm, Middletown
17 min walk • Prescott Farm is a historic preservation of a colonial farm in Middletown, Rhode Island. It spans 40 acres, and was in danger of demolition before Doris Duke, through the Newport Restoration Foundation bought it in 1973 and began restoration of the historical site.
3.2 miS
Historical place, Museum, History museum
Whitehall Museum House, Middletown
81 min walk • The Whitehall Museum House is the farmhouse modified by Dean George Berkeley, when he lived in the northern section of Newport, Rhode Island that comprises present-day Middletown in 1729–1731, while working to open his planned St Paul's College on Bermuda.
3.4 miN
Lighthouse, Vernacular architecture
Prudence Island Light, Portsmouth
88 min walk • The Prudence Island Lighthouse, more commonly known locally as the Sandy Point Lighthouse, is located on Prudence Island, Rhode Island and is the oldest lighthouse tower in the state. Sandy Point is nicknamed Chibacoweda, meaning "little place separated by a passage", because the location is a little more than one mile offshore.
2.6 miNE
Cemetery
Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery, Portsmouth
68 min walk • The Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse, Parsonage, and Cemetery is a historic Friends Meeting House and cemetery of the Religious Society of Friends, at 11 Middle Road and 2232 E. Main Road in Portsmouth, Rhode Island.