America’s First “Tiny Houses” - Newport, RI
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
One of the most popular concepts in housing is the "Tiny House" movement. The housing trend is a rejection of McMansions and huge gross living space home and a focus of human interaction and use only what you need.
The Tiny House movement has exploded as a new trend, but it's form and function can be traced to American Colonial times and no place may be more emblematic than the Colonial homes built in the 18th and early 19th centuries in Newport, Rhode Island.
One of the core tenets of the Tiny House movement is to free one of excessive housing costs as some Tiny Houses cost less than $50,000. But these 200 to 300 year-old homes in Newport cost between $350,000 and $800,000.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTTake a tour of some amazing homes in Newport's Point Section and Bellevue area neighborhoods where some historic homes are less than 700 square feet.
Related Slideshow: Tiny Houses Newport
Take a tour of some of Newport, Rhode Island's most historic homes and amazingly small homes. Many of the homes featured are in the historic and waterfront area known as the "Point Section."
"This historic 'Point' section was home to boat builders, craftsmen, sea captains, merchants, and fishermen. They lived and worked closely with the sea and were in daily contact with the large bustling wharves lining this part of the Newport waterfront over 200 years ago," says the Friends of the Waterfront in Newport.
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