Local residents offered free admission to Newport Mansions

NEWPORT, R.I. (WLNE) — The Preservation Society of Newport County is offering free admission to local mansions for Newport County Days.

Residents of Jamestown, Newport, Middletown, Portsmouth, Tiverton and Little Compton, as well personnel stationed at Naval Station Newport and their immediate family, and students of Salve Regina University, will have free admission on April 6 and April 7.

The society said that the Breakers, Marble House, and The Elms are open both days from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Rosecliff, including the exhibition “Gilded Age Newport in Color,” is open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Proof of residence, or a Naval Station Newport or Salve Regina student ID, is required for free admission.

Newport residents have free admission year-round.