Buttonwoods Beach Historic District, Warwick

Name: Buttonwoods Beach Historic District
Address: Warwick, United States

#25 among attractions in Warwick

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Buttonwood Beach Historic District is a historic district bounded by Brush Neck Cove, Greenwich Bay, Cooper and Promenade Avenues in Warwick, Rhode Island. Buttonwood Beach is a bucolic neighborhood on the eastern limb of the Nausauket neck, located in the West Bay area of Warwick, Rhode Island. Buttonwoods is delimited by Nausauket and Apponaug to the west, Buttonwoods Cove to the north, Greenwich Bay to the south and Oakland Beach to the east. Buttonwood Beach was founded as a summer colony in 1871 by the Rev. Moses Bixby of Providence's Cranston Street Baptist Church, who was looking for a place to establish a summer colony by the shore for his congregation. He envisioned a community that would be similar to Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, where the Methodists established a summer campground in 1835. Today, this coastal neighborhood on Greenwich Bay is home to people from many different religious backgrounds. ()

Coordinates: 41°41'4"N, 71°24'43"W

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Buttonwoods Beach Historic District – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Warwick Mall, Clouds Hill, Warwick Center for the Arts, Quidnessett Country Club.

4.3 miNW
Shopping, Shopping centre
Warwick Mall, Warwick
110 min walk • Warwick Mall is an enclosed American shopping mall in Warwick, Rhode Island, on the north side of Interstate 295 near the junction with Interstate 95.
2.1 miW
Specialty museum, Museum
Clouds Hill, Warwick
53 min walk • Clouds Hill is a historic house museum at 4157 Post Road in Warwick, Rhode Island. It is located on the estate formerly known as Cedar Hill, a country estate built 1871-77 as a wedding present for Elizabeth Ives Slater Reed by her father, William S. Slater.
2.5 miNW
Museum, Art museum
Warwick Center for the Arts, Warwick
64 min walk • Warwick Center for the Arts, formerly the Warwick Museum of Art, is an art museum in Warwick, Rhode Island, USA. The Center was founded in 1974 and features exhibits in its art gallery, as well as performances, camps for children, adult classes and comedy shows.
3 miS
41°38'29"N • 71°24'54"W
Quidnessett Country Club, Quonset Point
77 min walk • Nightlife, Golf
1.9 miN
41°42'39"N • 71°24'9"W
Warwick Public Library, Warwick
48 min walk • Library
2.6 miW
Church
Castle Hill Baptist Church, Warwick
66 min walk • Castle Hill Baptist Church in the town of Warwick in Warwickshire, England is one of the oldest Baptist churches in the world.
2.5 miSW
41°39'47"N • 71°27'1"W
Greenwich Odeum, East Greenwich
64 min walk • Concerts and shows, Theater
1.9 miW
41°41'29"N • 71°26'51"W
Apponaug Harbor Marina, Warwick
49 min walk • Sailing, Marina
1.7 miSW
41°39'44"N • 71°25'37"W
Potowomut Golf Club, Warwick
44 min walk • Golf
2.5 miSW
Military museum, Historical place, Museum
Gen. James Mitchell Varnum House, Warwick
64 min walk • The General James Mitchell Varnum House is an historic house at 57 Peirce Street in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1773 for James Mitchell Varnum, who later served as a general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
1.8 miE
Event space, Tower
Aldrich Mansion, Warwick
45 min walk • Aldrich Mansion is a late 19th-century property owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence since 1939. It is located by the scenic Narragansett Bay at 836 Warwick Neck Avenue in Warwick, Rhode Island, south of Providence, Rhode Island.