IYRS School of Technology & Trades is a private nonprofit school with a 3-acre campus on Thames Street in Newport, Rhode Island. IYRS focuses on training highly skilled craftspeople and technicians fo
1831 stone Newport Steam Factory
1831 John Mecray Aquidneck Mill Building, restored 2009
Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge
Coronet (yacht)
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Coronet is a 131' wooden-hull schooner yacht built for oil tycoon Rufus T. Bush in 1885. It is one of the oldest and largest vessels of its type in the world, and one of the last grand sailing yachts
IYRS School of Technology & Trades
…the 1831 stone Newport Steam Factory building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. From 1995 to 2006 major restoration work on the Coronet took place at the school. Media related to International Yacht Restoration School at Wikimedia Commons…
Coronet in race, 1893
Coronet interior, showing original woodwork
Coronet interior, hallway. Note curvilinear woodwork and etched mirror to left.
Coronet interior, berth