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New England by the Numbers
Newport, Rhode Island, celebrates the holidays with splendor.
by Daniel Allen
1971
year of the first Christmas in Newport festival, which now runs the entire month of December
7,172
carols sung at Astors' Beechwood Mansion since singing began during Victorian Christmas Tours in 1995. Guests step back in time to 1891, when the Astors entertained like royalty.
3,734
Christmas Tour visitors each season who choose to waltz around the Beechwood ballroom
10,500+
indoor and outdoor lights used to decorate Beechwood each Christmas
138,300
square footage of Cornelius Vanderbilt II's mansion, The Breakers
3,000
poinsettias used to decorate The Breakers, The Elms, and Marble House during the holiday season, most grown in the Preservation Society of Newport County's own greenhouses
225
children who told Santa their Christmas wishes last year at Newport's Santa's Workshop, held at Easton's Beach Carousel
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