Slide Title
Preview
Date
Winter 12-1971
Description
The building, the oldest surviving Synagogue in America, is angled to the street on a rise so that the ark inside faces Jerusalem. Only the elegance of the entrance porch, with arching inside a pedimented Ionic enclosure and the same generous spread of stairs as those for the Vernon House, anticipates the interior. For his design, Harrison borrowed from a two-story galleried hall in William Kent’s Designs of Inigo Jones and Others, and, for details of columns, balustrades, and the ark, from James Gibbs’s Rules of Drawing and Batty Langley’s Treasury of Designs, all books in his personal library.
Creator 1 Role
Photographer
Creator 2 Dates
1716-1775
Creator 2 Role
Architect
Subject Headings
Touro Synagogue (Newport, RI); Religious architecture -- Rhode Island -- Newport; Historic buildings – Rhode Island -- Newport;
Country Name
United States
Region Name
Rhode Island
City Name
Newport
Street Address
72 Touro St.
Recommended Citation
Smolski, Chester and Harrison, Peter, "Newport: Touro Synagogue" (1971). Smolski Images. 163.
https://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski_images/163
Keywords
synagogue; Touro Synagogue; Newport; religious architecture;
Notes
Bibliography: Jordy, William H. "Buildings of Rhode Island" Oxford University Press, 2004. p. 542