Zabriskie Memorial Traditional Geocache
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An easy outing in Newport's Point.
Located at one of the main architectural features of the Point, the cache is a Tupperware-like container with a logbook and a few trading items. It should be an easy find, without tramping in the English cottage-style garden nearby.
From the north, enter the Point via Third Street. Turn right on Sycamore Street and left on Washington Street. From the south, enter the Point from Farewell Street and the Goat Island Connector. Turn right onto Bridge Street and right onto Third Street. Pick one of the "Tree" streets, and turn left on it to find Washington Street. Parking near the cache is on the street. It's also an easy stroll from the Newport Gateway Center parking lot.
The building was built by Sara Titus Zabriskie in memory of her mother and was completed in 1894. If the doors are unlocked, you may visit inside to look at the Gothic architecture. A highlight is the side chapel designed by Ralph Adams Crans, a leading architect of the era, with redodos in the style of Fra Angelico. A 17th-century creche on the north east wall is open only during the Christmas season. The church was used as a location in a few movies--check out the wedding at the beginning of Me, Myself, and Irene, for instance. If you enjoy organ music, on Saturdays and Sundays during the summer, there are 15-minute concerts, called Quarter Till with Bach and Friends, at 8:45 and 11:45 am and 2:45, 5:45, and 8:45 pm. (The cost is a quarter!)
Outside the gardens are always in flux and are a part of the Point's annual Spring Secret Garden tour. The Newport Point district has more than one hundred homes that date to before 1800. A grid of small streets, the neighborhood was an early Quaker division of lands just to the north of the main harbor. Over time, some of the city’s most prosperous traders and merchants occupied the houses along what was then known as “Water Street,” and now is Washington Street. (The church rectory, just to the south, is one of these, as is the Hunter House museum just a block south.) Although the enemy occupation by the British troops during the Revolutionary War left the neighborhood in ruins, after a mid-20th century restoration effort of colonial homes, the Point residents received national recognition as a successful example of grassroots community rehabilitation.
Note: The cache is in a public area. You won't need to tramp around nearby yards.
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