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Day One
Home » Rhode Island » Rhode Island Vacations: A Five Day Itinerary » Day OneYou won’t want to miss touring the Gilded Age Mansions along Bellevue Avenue. Your best bet is to make the Elms your first stop and purchase a combination ticket. For the price of $29.00 you can tour five mansions or two for $21.00. Each mansion should take approximately one hour to tour.
After touring The Elms, move on to the Chateau-sur-Mer which was Bellevue Avenue’s first stone mansion. Chateau-sur-Mer was built as an Italianate-style villa for William Shepard Wetmore who was a China trade merchant. This mansion has most of the major design trades of the last half of the 19th century on display.
If time allows before lunch, tour another of the mansions. You won’t want to miss The Breakers, The Marble House, or Rosecliff.
By now you are probably ready for some lunch. There are so many great restaurants it will be hard to choose. While you are on Bellevue Avenue you may want to try the LaForge Casino Restaurant which has been around since 1881. There is a small sidewalk café, Crowley’s Casino Pub, The Porch which overlooks the grass tennis courts of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, and a Victorian style cocktail lounge.
After lunch you should tour the International Tennis Hall of Fame while you are there. This six acre venue displays photographs, memorabilia, and multimedia exhibits that chronicle the history of tennis dating back to the 12th century. The hours are from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily except Thanksgiving and Christmas and admission is $8.00 for adults, $6.00 for seniors, and $4.00 for children under the age of 16. You can pay $20.00 total for a family.
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