Newport Restoration Foundation

Newport Restoration Foundation | 241 followers on LinkedIn | Founded as a not-for-profit in 1968 by philanthropist Doris Duke, the Newport Restoration Foundation (NRF) preserves, maintains, and interprets the early architectural heritage of Aquidneck Island and the fine and decorative arts collections of Doris Duke in Newport. Since its founding, NRF has restored and preserved more than 80 eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century buildings, 73 of which are currently rented as private residences to tenant stewards and maintained by a full-time crew of carpenters and painters. The NRF also owns and operates three museum properties: • Rough Point; Doris Duke’s Newport mansion; home to a large collection of European paintings, textiles, decorative arts and Asian ceramics with notable works by Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Reynolds, and Tiffany.