Best places: Historical place museums in East Greenwich, United States

Palatial Gilded Age summer home of the Vanderbilts, with ornate artwork, gardens & guided tours.

The former summer home for the Vanderbilts, this stone Beaux-Arts-style mansion is now a museum.

Estate on 33 acres featuring a mansion & expansive gardens (with rare plants) offering group tours.

Featured in the 1974 film The Great Gatsby, the Gilded Age mansion offers audio tours & a gift shop.

Industrial Revolution museum in a 1793 textile mill, with artifacts, crafts exhibits & guided tours.

👍👍 The Newport Tower is a nice little tower in the middle of a nice little park. At first glance it appears to to be a simple tower in a park, some claim that this tower has a much more complex history. There have been TV shows that have made the claim that the tower was built by the Knights Templar. T...

👍👍 Stopped on a whim. The grounds are nice, but the house is closed until later in the week. There are tours offered but it is by appointment. The gentleman there was really nice and answered a lot of my questions.

Visitors can tour this storied mansion built in 1810, which is also popular as a wedding venue.

Museum features social & cultural history of early America told through guided & audio tours.

Lavish former summer home completed in 1894 in the Châteauesque style, with tours by reservation.

This lavish 1865 former family home turned museum is an unusually intact example of Victorian decor.

Mid-18th-century Georgian mansion museum with period furnishings, open seasonally for tours.