The Bellevue Avenue/Top of the Hill Neighborhood is bounded by Kay, Bellevue, Greenough & 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’s vibrant Gilded Age economy. The Bellevue Avenue section contain service businesses that directly catered to the summer colony.
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