Castle Hill Inn - Relais & Chateaux

From actress Grace Kelly to playwright Thornton Wilder, Castle Hill has captured the imagination of guests from around the world with its enchanting setting, relaxed elegance, and authentic Newport vibe. Todays Castle Hill continues to evoke the magic of years past while at the same time providing guests with a contemporary luxury experienceone marked by personalized service, world-class cuisine, and extraordinary attention to detail. Travel back in history with us to learn more about our historic Rhode Island hotel. As Newport began to grow into a prominent seaport, the wealthy built great architectural tributes to the life of leisure: splendid, multiple-roomed mansions called cottages. Castle Hill was a gracious, shingle-style song of a house commissioned in 1874 by marine biologist and naturalist Alexander Agassiz of Harvard University. Todays inn was his original summer home, where he kept his eye on the ocean and the sea life within it. He filled his house with the best of Chi...