{"id":232,"date":"2015-02-11T03:15:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T03:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gildedageincolor.com\/?page_id=232"},"modified":"2015-02-16T18:15:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T18:15:57","slug":"bellevue-top-hill-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/?page_id=232","title":{"rendered":"Bellevue &#8211; Top of the Hill Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bellevue Avenue\/Top of the Hill Neighborhood is bounded by Kay, Bellevue, Greenough &amp; Bath Road (Memorial Blvd in the present day). The neighborhood is characterized with a large number of boarding houses and transient guest homes that catered to the summer workforce and visitors that supported Newport\u2019s vibrant Gilded Age economy. The Bellevue Avenue section contain service businesses that directly catered to the summer colony.<\/p>\n<p>Mouse over the dots for examples of who lived in this neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" name=\"Bellevue\" src=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Bellevue1.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"322\" border=\"0\" usemap=\"#m_Bellevue\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<map name=\"m_Bellevue\">\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"107,238, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Thomas Brown - 22\/24 Catherine\" alt=\"Thomas Brown - 22\/24 Catherine\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"104,250, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Thomas Glover Boarding House - 26 Brinley\" alt=\"Thomas Glover Boarding House - 26 Brinley\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"92,255, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Nolan Boarding House - 24 Brinley\" alt=\"Nolan Boarding House - 24 Brinley\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"82,243, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Glover Boarding House - 7\/9 Filmore\" alt=\"Glover Boarding House - 7\/9 Filmore\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"46,237, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Mrs. Nellie Brown - 26 Filmore\" alt=\"Mrs. Nellie Brown - 26 Filmore\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"28,275, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Richard B. King - 7 Guinn Court\" alt=\"Richard B. King - 7 Guinn Court\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"68,290, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Nellie Brown Boarding House - 21\/23 Brinley\" alt=\"Nellie Brown Boarding House - 21\/23 Brinley\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"148,293, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Nellie Brown Rest Home\" alt=\"Nellie Brown Rest Home\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"243,34, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Andrew Tabb - 28 Edgar Court\" alt=\"Andrew Tabb - 28 Edgar Court\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"282,10, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Abraham Ash - 12 Edgar Court\" alt=\"Abraham Ash - 12 Edgar Court\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"304,24, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Richard Church- Edgar Court near Bath Road\" alt=\"Richard Church- Edgar Court near Bath Road\" >\n<area shape=\"poly\" coords=\"282,112,284,108,288,106,292,108,294,112,292,116,288,118,284,116,282,112,282,112\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Julius Decatur - 6 Deblois\" alt=\"Julius Decatur - 6 Deblois\" >\n<area shape=\"poly\" coords=\"287,123,289,119,293,117,297,119,299,123,297,127,293,129,289,127,287,123,287,123\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"William James - 4 Deblois\" alt=\"William James - 4 Deblois\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"298,134, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Francis Gerad - 2 Deblois\" alt=\"Francis Gerad - 2 Deblois\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"379,168, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Mary Dickerson Dressmaking - 6 Travers Block\" alt=\"Mary Dickerson Dressmaking - 6 Travers Block\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"369,176, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Benjamin Burton Express Service - 4 Travers Block\" alt=\"Benjamin Burton Express Service - 4 Travers Block\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"345,187, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"John Jackson - Bath Road (Memorial) &amp; Bellevue\" alt=\"John Jackson - Bath Road (Memorial) &amp; Bellevue\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"330,196, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Fred E. Williams Confectionary - 148 Bellevue\" alt=\"Fred E. Williams Confectionary - 148 Bellevue\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"303,213, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Touro Chapel\/Touro Block - 126 Bellevue\" alt=\"Touro Chapel\/Touro Block - 126 Bellevue\" >\n<area shape=\"circle\" coords=\"290,220, 6\" href=\"javascript:;\" title=\"Downing Block - 100\/122 Bellevue\" alt=\"Downing Block - 100\/122 Bellevue\" ><\/map>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bellevue Avenue\/Top of the Hill Neighborhood is bounded by Kay, Bellevue, Greenough &amp; Bath Road (Memorial Blvd in the present day). The neighborhood is characterized with a large number of boarding houses and transient guest homes that catered to the summer workforce and visitors that supported Newport\u2019s vibrant Gilded Age economy. The Bellevue Avenue &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/?page_id=232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bellevue &#8211; Top of the Hill Neighborhood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-232","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riblackheritage.org\/_restores\/gildedageincolor\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}