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andorcommon Watch Hill Historic District

2. LocationFounded roughly by Breen, Watch Ilil 1 , and

street & number - E st liii]. Roads ; Block T slanci Sound; Li ttle N,,,A *not for publicatin"Na±ragansett Bay; and Pa’catuck River congresci onal di s I ct

oily, town IVesteflv .. vicinityof Hon. Claudine Schneidci

state Rhode Is- I EIFICl code 44 county hashington code

3. Classificationcategory Ownership Status Present Use

district -- public occupied agriculture mus:-urv- - buildings - private X unoccupied .X commercial ;< park

structure N ooth x work in progress educational X prite :es,ilr-’ir:esIQ Public Acquisition Accessible entertainment ‘-: relgiousobject N. A . in process yes: restricted government scieriti!i;

being considered yes: unrestricted industrial - tral,suorl.nti:::no military other -

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name Multiple ownership

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cot:rthouse. registry of deeds, etc. Westerly Town i-la 1.1

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cUy town Westerly state Rhode Island U-?8’

6. flepresentation in Existing SurveysHistorical and Architectural

title Resources of Westerly. R J has this property been determined eligible? yes no

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N good ruins - X altered moved latefair unexposed

Describe the present and original if known physical appearance

Watch Hill, one of Rhode Island’s most attractive and best preserv-:’dcoastal communities, developed as a seaside summer resort of hotels andsubstantial dwellings in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centur-..The village occupies a scenic shoreside expanse of hilly ground. The areais largely suburban in character, with an irregular pattern of streets containing detached houses set on landscaped lots interspersed with woodlandand lnarshland. The houses are executed in the various styles common inthe decades immediately preceding and following the turn of the twenticl,hcentury. Nearly ninety percent of the 247 buildings in the district areresidential structures, the’ majority built between 1840 and 1930. Therelatively uni form scale and the predominant use of shingled wood- frameconstruction give Watch Hill a considerable degree of visual harmony.

Watch Hill is situated at the extreme southwestern corner of Rhodeisland in the town of Westerly, on a roughly triangular neck of land huindedsoutherly by Block Island Sound the Atlantic Ocean and northwesterly byLittle Narragansett Bay and the Pawcatuck River, the last two of which f:ormthe boundary between Westerly and Stonington, Connecticut. At the end ofthe neck are two points: crescent-shaped Napatree Point, running off totiic: west, and Watch Hill Point, running off to the south the latter thesite of a lighthouse since 1808. - For ‘the most part the ocean sliorellicencompasses unbroken, gently curving stretches of sandy beach. ‘l’lie bayshore is more convoluted, with three small coves separating subsidiarypen i n Sn I as . The terrain at Watch Hi II is’ uneven * WI th a liutfihe r o f kIlo I I Sdepressions, and tiny ponds. The trees and shrubbery planted on house lots,the woods and vines on undeveloped parcels, and the tall reeds fill ing themarshes combine to create a strong countrified ambience. The changes inelevation and relatively dense vegetation separate the district visuallyinto distinct subsections. The pattern of settlement, characterized bycurving streets winding over and around the hillsides, is well suited tothe picturesque landscape.

- The primary route through the district -follows Watch Hill Road,Westerly Road, and Wauwinnet Avenue to Bay Street, the village’s main streetCommercial activity is concentrated on Bay Street, a thoroughfare runnIngtangent to the shore of Little Narragansett Bay with a small waterfrontpark on one side. At its southwesterly end, Bay Street terminates at the

i rig Horse Carousel, a local landmark listed in the National Register ofHistoric Places. The earliest resort development occurred in the areaadjoining Bay Street, Plympton Road, and L-shaped Bluff Avenue includingLarkin Road, see district map , where the first hotels- -two of which survive- -and summer houses were built. Today this village center contains amix of residential, commercxai ,-and institutional - structures, includingthe Watch Hill Chapel and the Post Office - The portions of the distiic tto the northeast are almost entirely residential. Though they were builtup after 1885, these areas contain scattered remnants from eaTler periods,

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such as two former farmhouses dating from the eighteenth century Inglecote on Westerly Road and the Misquamicut Inn on Misquamicut Road Thedensity and siting of buildings in’-Xhe sections around Misquamicut Roadand Everett, Niantic, and Ninigret Avenues are characteristically suburbanAlong Ocean View Highway and Yosemite Valley Road, some houses are set onmore spacious parcels and have ibrê:-it’-he appearance of country estates.

Over the past fifty years tFfeg-reatest change at Watch Hill has beenwrought by the hurricane of l938..whi çh destroyed over fifty houses . Sincethen few old structures have been demoljshed The intrusive impact of neconstruction in the district ha’ Thdehlimited by the dispersal of modernstructures on building sites scattered throughout the area. In spite ofimproved regional transportation, Wafth Hill is still relatively remotefrom urban areas and has escaped pressures for more intensive development.Though the number of year-round inhabitants has increased, the communityretains its seasonal nature, its population fluctuating from over 60families in winter to over 300 in summer. - -

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Contributing structures include the buildings erected during WatchHill’s period of growth as a summer resort, from the 1840s through the1930s, together with earlier buildings which reflect prior developmentbut became part of the resort community e.g., farmhouses converted tosummer cottages or guest houses - The period of signi ficance extendsfrom the eighteenth century to 1935.

Although a number of structures have been altered, some by theaddition of modern wail -cover materials; original trim elements oftenremain. Such buildings have been defined as contributing since they arehistorically part of the built environment of Watth Hill and they couldbe restored to their original appearance. in some cases, where tri.melements have been totally removed or covered, buildings have still beendefined as contributing if their scale, form, massing, and siting makethem essential parts of historic hlockscapes - In cases where buildingshave- been extensively altered and their appearances have been totallytransformed e.g., garages o-f the 1910s and l920s converted to residencesthat iook like 1950s ranch houses , the structures have been designatedas non-contributing. - -

A consistent and comprehensive system of addresses is lacking atWatch Hill. Some buildings are set at a street corner, in the middle ofa block, or far back on a lot in a manner that makes it difficult todetermine on what street the building is located. For the purposes ofthis nomination, each building has been assigned a location based on theone listed for it in Westerly tax records, even though the street designated may not be the one physically closest to the building e.g., thetwo houses near Mastuxet Terrace, map numbers 44 and 45, that are identified in town records as properties on Bluff Avenue . Streets have beenlisted in alphabetical order, and hui1dings in the order in which therappear on the street. The inventory entries have been numbered in sequence. - These inventory-entry numbers have beenused a-s map numbers toidentify the location of each property on the district map.

NftL Non-contributing buildings are marked by the prefix ‘NC.’

Unless otherwise stated, huildings are of shingle-clad wood-frameconstruction.


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NC 1 Longshore III, now Treasure East ca 1925, ca 1960: This dwellingcomprises two sections: an older 1-story, hip-roof, weatheredshingle structure attached to a large 2-story, gable-roof, paintedshingle addition. The original portion was built as chauffeur’squarters -for Longshore II. The modern section, with picture windowsand an extensive 2nd-story deck, is larger and more visually prominent than the original building. see Longshore II, number 151

NC 2 Anthony C. Fonda- Housetract house composed ofsaltbox, and jerkin-head

- with stucco articulatedoccupies the site of anhurned in 1976.

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NC 3 Chez Moi 1950s : An asymmetrically massed, 1-story, hip-roof,French Provincial - style brick ranch house.

4 Echo Lodge ca 1886 et seq.: A large 2½-story, gable-roof QueenAnne dwelling dominated by an asymmetrically placed 3-story, octagonal corner tower capped by a domical ogee-curve roof. A veranda tc:rminates in a conical-roof gazebo now glazed set at the foot of thecorner tower. The exterior has been aluminum sided and a long shed-dormer addition interrupts the roof massing. The house wa builtfor James Emott, who sold it in 1894 to William C. Doane of Cincinnati,a prominent 19th-century Baptist hymn writer. -

NC 5 House ca 1975: -A tall 1½-story, gable-roof, Contemporary styledwelling with asymmetrical massing and a 2nd-story balcony cut intothe roof.

6 Bay lidge ca 1905 : A large Modern Colonial dwelling with a massivegambrel roof that encompasses the second story and attic.. The roof

- mass is broken by several small symmetrically disposed shed dormersand a central cross-gathhrel on the facade which contains a bay window.There is a wraparound veranda recessed into the mass of the building.The house was the summer residence of Lewis Ti. English, president ofthe New Haven Sat’ ings Ba nk

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1980: An asymmetrically massed Tudor-style.1 - and 2-story blocks covered with shed,roofs. Exterior wall surfaces are covered

with simulated half-timbering. This houseearlier dwelling, Treasure Hill , which

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7 Craigie Brae late 18th or early 19th century?, altered late 19thcentury: A 2½-story, flank-gable-roof dwelling set end to thestreet, with deep overhanging eaves, eave returns on the gahl e ends,and a massive center chimney. A veranda on the northwesterly sideof the house shelters an entrance and continhes as a - recessed porchin the end away from the street. There is an off-center entrance i.nthe street facade, and a Palladian stairhall window, a columnedporch, and an asymmetrically placed interior chimney on the south-easterly side. The house is now covered with aluminum siding * Itappears that this structure might be a Colonial - or Federal -eradwelling altered in the Colonial Revival style, but no house is shownon this site on any maps prior to 1895. At the turn of the centurythe house was owned by Dr. James MacAllister of Philadelphia and usedby him as a summer residence. MacAllister, a native of Scotland,served successively as superintendent of the Milwaukee and Philadel -

phia Public Schools and as president of the Drexel Institute ofPhiladelphia.

2 Sunset Hill 1913-1915; Grosvenor Atterhury and John A. Tompkins,architects: A rambling 2-story, hip-roof stone villa situated ona dramatic hillside site surrounded by p-aved terraces and terraced -

lawns. The house comprises a central section flanked by splayedwings connected to the main mass by squat octagonal towers withlow-pitch conical roofs. The building embraces. a courtyard closedby a high stone wall pierced by shuttered arched openings. Detailingincludes arched window openings on the first floor, a central howwindow, and wrought-iron 2nd-floor balconies. The landscaping wasexecuted by Wadley Smythe of New York. The grounds contain apreexisting octagonal gazebo with a flaring conical roof topped hya dovecote. The house was built by the R.A. Sherman Company ofWesterly for Mary Thaw Thompson, -daughter of Pennsylvania Railroadmagnate William Thaw of Pittsburgh and wife of William R. Thompsonof New York. Sunset- Hill has long been owned by prominent New Yorkfinancier and businessman Hunter S. Marston.

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9 Everbreeze. ca 1930: A 2½-story, gable-roof, clapboard neo-Colonialdwelling with an asymmetrical facade containing an off-centerentrance under a gable-roof portico.

NC 10 North Cove ca 1910: A 2½-story, gambrel-roof, dwelling with sheddormers and paired exterior end chimneys. Set on a sloping site, the

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- original structure is now surrounded by a number of unsympathetic1- and 2-story, shed- and flat-roof, shingled additions, one with abasement-level garage. - The house was at one time occupied as asummer residence by Frederick J. Kingsbury, Jr. , of New Haven.

ii lvestmorelands ca 1910: A 2½-stoiy, hip-roof, stuccoed Mission-style dwelling with rectangular-block massing, a first-floor arcadeon the facade, deep eaves with stick bracketing, and shaped gablesbreaking up through the eaves. A modern 1- story, gab] c-roof addi -

tion with sliding glass doors conflicts with the architecturalcharacter of the original structure. The housewas built for Mrs.George W. McLanahan, wife of a prominent journalist from Washington, -

D.C. The McLanahans built other houses at Watch Hill see numbers104, 152 and- 166.

12 Shortlands ca 1905: A long 2½-story, hip-roof dwelling withtripartite massing formed by a central section flanked by splayedwings. The house -has a central entrance porch and paired end porches,paired exterior end chimneys, wide overhanging eaves with stickbracketing, asymmetrical fenestration, a central hip-roof dormer,and a wall extending from the east end of the building. It wasbuilt as a summer residence for F. Kingsbury Curtis of New York.

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13 Flying Horse Carousel 1876; Charles Dare Company, builders: Acarousel of 20 carved wood horses suspended from a revolving super-

- structureon steel rods, sheltered by a dodecagonal hip roof onfield stone columns that also support sections of white paintedpicket fencing. One of the oldest carousels in the United States--some sources claim the oldest--this is the only flying-horse carouselsurViving in the country. It was brought to Watch Hill in 1883 andwas originally sheltered under canvas; the present enclosure datesfrom a later period. Originally horse-drawn and later water-powered,it is now electrified. The carousel is maintained by the Watch HillImprovement Society and underwent restoration in the l960s and 1970s.It was entered in the National Register o-f Historic Places in 1980.

NC 14 Cabanas 1960s: A 1-story structure on wood pilings o-f wood-panelconstruction, comprising flat-roof cabana units arranged in parallelrows with intervening aisles open to the sky.


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16 Nash’s Newstand 1913its original store frontthe roof mass.

NC 17 Commercial Building earlywhich is a multi-unit versito the north number 19by a veranda and clerestory

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now Fiore’s Market-j erkin-head-roof strucshallow pent roof above

as a silent-motion-pictureas a grocery store in the

A small 1-story, hip-roof structure withsheltered by a front veranda recessed under

1970s: A 1½-story, shed-roof structureon of the building standing immediatelyIt has plate-glass storefronts shelteredwindows in the facade above the veranda

NC 18 Commercial Building ca 1980structure with a pent roof on

A plain 1-story,the facade and bay

endgableroofwindows

NC 19 Commercial Buistructure with

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iding early 1970s: A small 1½-story, shed-roofa veranda sheltering a single plate-glass stowindows in the facade above the veranda. lt

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20 Commercial Building early 1900s, remodeled 1940s: A 2-story structure with a low-pitch end-gable roof and a shallow recessed verandasheltering a shopfront.

21 Commercial Building ca 1890commercial structure with a turpartly in vertical-hoard siding

A small 1½-story, end-gablened-post front veranda. It

and partly in shingles.

-roofis sheathed

22 Commercial 131 ock ca 1910 : A 1½-story structure with an M-profi Icdouble -gable roof pierced by hip- roof doriners breaking up throuththe eaves. Set on a corner lot, it has plate-glass storefrontsshe] te red by a veranda enc i rd ing two sides of the bui lding

NC 23 S-i sson Block U938 : A long, 2-story, flat-roof commercial buildingwith first-story storefronts under a veranda topped with a parapetand three symmetrically placed balcony units capped by pediments.The building is covered with asbestos and wood shingles. The pedi

- ments and the oculus windows that they contain give this structurea slight neo-Colonial flavor.

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15 Former Crown Theatre, later Ninigret Theatrecal9OS, remodeled l940s: A 1½-story, endture sheathed with asbestos shingles, with aa plate-glass storefront. Originally built-theatre, the building was converted for use194 Os . -

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24 Commercial Block, formerly Columbia House ca 1890, rebuilt ca 1916:A 2-story, flat-roof structure with plate-glass storefronts undera front veranda and a roof parapet broken by a central gable containing a lunette window. The building is now covered with asbestosshingles. This- was formerly the lower portion of the ColimmIli:IIlouse HoteL, a large structure partly destroyed by Fire in 1916.The surviving lower floors were refurbished and adapted For commercial use after the fire, -

NC 25 Watch Hill Yacht Club 1939 A 2-story, gable-roof, shingle andstucco building constructed on pilings in the harbor. The YachtClub was founded in 1913. The present structure was erected to replace one that was - built in 1922 and destroyed in the hurricane of1938.

26 Ridley Watts Memorial, ‘‘The Dreamer’ 1940; Sylvia Shaw Judsonsculptor A drinking fountain comprising a cast-bronze statue ofa small boy set in a circular granite basin on a cylindrical graniteedesta1. The boy is represented in a sitting posture, with hishead resting on an upraised knee and his other leg folded beneathhim. The fountain was donated to the village by summer residentMrs. Ridley Watts in memory of her husband, a prominent New YorkCity dry-goods merchant.

27 Ninigret Statue 1911, 1916; Enid Yandell, sculptor; Alexis Rudier,founder : A cast-bronze sculpture of the Indian Chief Ninigret,represented in a kneeling posture with a blackfish in each hand.Executed in Paris in 1911 by the American artist Enid Yandell, aone- time student in the studio of Auguste Rodin, the statue was re -

portedly modeled after an Indian then appearing in Europe with BuffaloBill’s Wild West Show. It was- donated to the village of Watch Hillin 1916 by Mrs. Clement A. Griscom in memory of her husband. Thefigure was once part of a fountain with water issuing from the fishes’mouths. It has been moved three times from its original locat ion atWesterly Road arid Ni nigret Avenue and is now mounted on a boulder setin a small waterfront park designed by landscape archi tect Marian Coffin.

28 Commercial Block ca 1900: A long, 2-story, flat-roof, clapboardstructure with shop fronts under a front veranda and rooms on thesecond floor

29 Commercial Building ca 1910: A 2-story, shed-roof structure sheathedwith vertical-groove siding on the facade and clapboards on the sidesand rear. It has plate-glass shop fronts under a columned veranda


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with a roof balustrade

30 Commercial Building ca 1910 A 2½-story, cross-jerkin-head-roofstructure now covered with vertical-groove plywood panels on thefront and asphalt siding on the sides. It has an original store frontunder a veranda with turned posts supporting a glazed 2nd-storyporch. This building was first occupied by the Watch Hi Il Pharmacy.

31 Narragansett House ca 1845 : A large 3½-story, h-plan, gable-roof,19th-century vernacular structure, set on a sloping site with a 1-story, partly enclosed veranda along the south side and a large,modern, flat- roof addition on the west at basement and first-floorlevels. This addition, with an overhang supported on stilts,. isenclosed with windows overlooking the harbor. Built for Nathan Nash,son of Watch Hill lighthouse keeper and hotelier Jonathap Nash, theNarragansett House was one of the earliest hotels at Watch Hill andis one of the village’s oldest survi ving structures. It still operatesas an inn,

32 - House ca 1920 : A longbungalow, set end to the

and narrow,street with

1-story, hip-roof, stuccoeda glazed porch on the front.

33 Watch Hill Court 1920s? through 1960s : A motel complex consistingof three buildings: -

NC A l940s: A 1-story stucco building comprising a contained, recti-linear mass covered by a complex array of parallel and intersecting

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NC B 1960s : A 1-story, rectangular, gable-roof structure resembi inga ranch - type tract house. -

NC C .1 920s?stone ana perpenea ily 20wings hat I on wh ithe mid-House, a

with later altei-ations: A structud stucco wings arranged parallel todicular, 1-story, flat-roof wing coth - century double-leaf garage doorss a hip roof; the other has a fiatch indicates it was either altered20th century. The buildings occupy19th-century hotel razed- in 1938.

re compri s mg two 2-story,each other, connected by

ntaining garage bays withOne of the parallel

roof and modern fenestraor newly constructed inthe site of the PlymptonPart of building C was

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probably constructed as an outbuilding of the Plympton House.

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34 Former Fire Station 1910: A 2-story, unornamented brick structurewith a- modern low-pitch end-gable roof and modern aluminum-framewindows. Built as -an engine house for the Watch Hill Fire District,this building now houses a retail store,

35 Burdick Building ca 1910: A 1½- and 2½-story, L-planwith intersecting jerkin-head roofs-and hip-Thnd jerkindormers. it has a wraparound turned-post veranda -on tha recessed veranda in the flank wing; and a 2-story, fiadditi-pn on the end of the flank wing. Domestic inhas early 20th century storefronts shelterád by the

36 Drysdale Building ca 1915: A large 2½-story, end-gable-roof, Craftsman style commercial block with deep overhanging eaves, extended-rafter bracketing, and long shed dormers. It has a 2-story sideaddition covered by a low-pitch flank-gable roof. A veranda-witha roof balustrade runs across the front of the main block and theaddition, shelter lug the storefronts. The hull ding is now coveredwith aluminum siding.

37 Lahphear’s Stable, now Holdredge’s Garage ca 1885 et seq.: Arambling 2½-story structure composed of a large flank-gable-roofblock with a pair of asymmetrical end-gable-roof units at each endof the facade and a range of three parallel end-gable-roof unitsprojecting from the rear. it has a large front dormer with a shed--roof central section connecting paired end-gable sections. Thebuilding is now covered with asbestos siding. it was built as alivery stable its original stalls remain intact and now serves asan auto garage. -

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NC 38 Garage ca l920s: A 2-story, hip-roof structure with a 2-bay garageoccupying the first story and a residential apartment on the secondstory.

39 House ca 1915: - A 2½-story, hip-roof dwelling set narrow endthe street, with a projecting shed-roof vestibule sheltering afront-entrance and a shed-roof side veranda with square posts.is now sheathed with aluminum siding.

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40 House ca 1900: A tiny, nondescript 1-story, gable-on-hip-roofcottage. -

41 Edgecliff 1907; attributed to Edward F. Hinkle, architect: A 2½-story, hip-roof dwelling set hack from the road at the end of anaxial driveway. it has contained rectangular-hiock massing, asyin-metrical fenestration, and a central entrance sheltered by a whitewrought-iron portico. The property south of Bluff Avenue was on -

ginally the site of the Larkin House hotel. It was purchased byMr. and Mrs . Clement A. Griscom of- Phi ladeiphia , who demolished thehotel and subdivided the land into house lots. The Gri scoms builtthis house as a summer residence -for themselves. Mr. Griscom hadinterests in banking and shipping. -

NC 42 The Grodge 1913 : The original portion of this building is a 1½-story Dutch Colonial structure with a broad gambrel roof pierced bylong shed dormers . Later aiterat ions include an additional gab ic- roofstory added atop the gambrel roof and a 1-story, hip-roof, shingLe dlThe old section was originally built as a garage and chauffeur’squarters for Aktaion, now Moana see number 44.

43 The Cottage ca 1912 : A modest 2-story dwelling with a low-pitchhip roof and a side-hall entrance sheltered by an elliptical, barrel -

hood portico. A multi-pane bow window on the facade and a 1-story,gable-roof side eli are probably later additions. This originallyserved as either a guest house or caretaker’s house for Aktaion, nowMoana see number 44

44 Aktaion, now Moana 1906; Edward F. Hinkle, architect: A large,complex, picturesque dwelling combining elements of Shingle Style,medieval, Colonial Revival, and Craftsman architecture. A 2½-story,hip-roof central block is flanked by slightly shorter, splayed sidewings of different lengths that extend parallel to the main blockthen run off at angles at each end. An off-center, end-gable frontpay lion on the central block is offset by a massive exposed frontchimney of hri.ck. ‘i’he pavilion contains the main entrance under acolumned porch with a roof balustrade. Other features includeasyminet ri.cal fenes t ration of single and grouped windows o.f rariecisize, hip and shed lormers, hargehoard trim on the pavilion gable,and slightly flared broad eaves with stick-bracket deta iling. EdwardF. Hinkle built this house as a summer residence for himself, on landgiven by Mrs. Clement A. Griscom as compensation for work he haddone for her see number 414. In 1921 this became the summer home ofFord Motor Company executive John W. Anderson of Detroit. Anderson’sson-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gardner of Washington,-D.C. , later occupied the house. Mr. Gardner was at one time U.S.Ambassador to Cuba.

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45 Trespasso 1906-07; Edward F. Hinkle, architect: A 2½-story, rectangular-block , gable-on-hip-roof dwelling with a short, 2-story,gable-roof wing running off the main block at an angle. It has anoff-center, columned entrance porch with a roof balustrade; asymmetrical fenestration, broad eaves, shed-roof dormers; and a modernwidow’s walk on the roof. Erected on the site of the Larkin Househotel, this house was originally owned and occupied as a summerresidence by Philadelphia shipping executive Rodman E. Griscom.The name ‘Trespasso’ refers to a long-standing dispute between theGriscom family and the town of- Westerly concerning the designationof the adjoining Lighthouse Road as a public right-of-way.

46 Former Alsop Cottage, Mastuxet, now Hartley’s Guest House ca 1900,moved and remodeled 1913: A large dwelling with a massive, broadcross-gambrel roof containing its second story, third story, andattic. A wraparound veranda is now partly enclosed and the exteriorwalls are now covered with asbestos shingles. Originally constructedwhere Kedge number 50 currently stands, the house was moved to itspresent site in 1913 and was possibly enlarged at that time. Tt wasonce owned by T. 0. Babcock and occupied by Anne S. Mrs . Jacob S.Burnet.

47 By-the-Sea 1879; attributed to George Keller, architect : A large,complex 2½- and 3½-story dwelling, vaguely Goth i.c in character, seton a sloping site. It is essentially a block-like mass with a steep,tall hip roof broken by asymmetrically placed, steep gables and sheddormers. A 2--story veranda extends across the basement and firstfloor levels on the downhill side of the house. A 2-story eli witha low-pitch hip roof appears to be an early 20th-century addition.This house, reportedly the first seasonal summer residence erectedas such at Watch Hill, was built for James L. Howard of Hartford,president of the Hartford Electric Light Company and one-time Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.

48 Aldrich Cottage lS7Os? : A 1½-story, L-plan dte1ling with a sinai Iblocky entrance pavilion partly filling the interior angle of the "L."it is covered by a steep mansard roof broken by slightly flarringend gambrels over the legs of the "L." A columned veranda runs acrossthe ftont and bends hack around the entrance pavilion to fill out theinterior corner of the "L." There is a side bay window with a shed-roof hood and dormers with shed hoods. The exterior has been aluminum sided but -some detailing remains, such as bargeboard trim on theend gambrels and moldings forming a pediment shape above windows inthe end gambrels. This house was built as a rental property affiliated


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49 Holiday House, now Highwatch 1931 : Situated on the summit of Watch- Hill itself, this is a large 2½- to 3½-story, white clapboard dwelling

i-n a hybrid French Provi ncia 1/Mode me style - with i3ngl i sh Regencytouches, altered -somewhat since its construction. The house coinprises a rectangular, hip-roof main block; a few rectangular, hip-roof wings and pavilions; and four prominent, slab-like brick chimneys , all assembled into an asymmetrical composition. The roofsrise from the edges of the wall tops without intervening overhangsor parapets, giving the buildings a crisp, hard-edge quality. Thefenestration is asymmetrical and includes a few shed dormers. Thesoutherly elevation has large plate-glass windows overlooking BlockIsland Sound. Period detailing is limited to a few Regency Iatt ice-work porches, window shutters, and a single barrel-roof dormer. Thehouse was built for Mrs. George Grant Snowden , wife of a Philadelphia -

oil-company executive. It was later the property of William Hale andRehekah Harkness of New York City. Mrs. Harkness , director of theHarkness Ballet Company, ran a summer ballet series here for a fewyears in the mid-1960s see number 200

50 The Kedge , now Hill House 1903 : A large Modern Colonial/ShingleStyle dwelling with a massive flank-gambrel roof encompassing itssecond story and attic. An off-center, columned entrance porch witha Chinese Chippendale roof balustrade is flanked on each side by a2-story bay window with a low-pi tch polygonal hip roof. The roofmass is broken by shed dormers on the lower slopes and indivi dual

-- hip-roof dormers on the upper slopes. The fenestration is varied,

with some modern Chicago-type windows added in the mid- or late20th century, and there is a massive brick exterior chimney on eachend of the building. The house was built as a summer residence forIL P. Ballantine of Newark, N.J. , president of the Ballantine BrewingCompany. It was later the property of Ballantine’s daughter and son-in-law, Roberta and John O.H. Pitney. Mr. Pitney 1897-1942 was apartner in the Newark law firnY Pitney, 1-lardin Skinner.

NC Si Ilonse ca 1962 An a-syinmetri cal 2-story, split-level - type tracthouse with intersecting end- and Flank-gable roofs

NC 52 House ca 1968: A 2-story, flank-gable-roof, split-entry-ranch-typedwelling with "Southern Colonial" style full -height front veranda.-

53 Seaesta, later Weownit ca 1903: A handsome 2½-story, hip-roof,Colonial Revival dwelling modeled after 19th-century Georgian residences.

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It has a symmetrical S-bay facade with a central entrance,entrance porch with a roof balustrade, side porches, fourchimneys, a modillion cornice, and hip-roof dormers . Theconstructed as a summer residence for A. Clifford Shinkle,of the Central Trust Company of Cincinnati.

a columnedend - wallhouse waspresident

NC 54 House ca 1980: A 2- and 3-story, cubical-mass, flat- and shed-roof,weathered-clapboard dwelling with large plate-glass windows overlooking Block Is land Sound. It is designed in the manner of Moore LyndonTurnhull Whitaker ‘s Sea Ranch Condominium development in California.

55 Sunnandene 1906: A 2½-story, hip-roof, stucco Tudorwith half-timbering detailing. It has a symmetrical faslightly projecting front pavilions Flanking a centraltered by a massive-timber porch. The house was built aresidence for Sophie Moen of Boston and was later owned1-loward Bush of Troy, N.Y. , granddaughter of Hartford andresident James L. howard see By- the-Sea

Revival dwei, lingcade with twoent rance shel -

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Watch Hill

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S6 Watch Hill Union Chapel 1876-77; addition 1887; altered1928; George Keller, original architect : In its presentis a 1-story neo-Coionial structure on a sloping site, with ament story at grade at the rear and a tall hip roof topped byoctagonal cupola at the front. A columnedroof parapet shelters three arched doorways. The exterior waiJs arenow covered with aluminum siding but a triglvph decorative friezeremains. Originally a Modern Gothic structure with a projectingend-gabled entrance porch, j igsawn hargehoard and gable-screen trim,

the chapelide ntic allybelfry. Ininside andith uniformyes intact,-gold mottos

and a stthe conswith itschairsto its pOnly the

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own porch andwere installedresent state, winterior survi

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was later enlarged in 188 bydetailed, parallel side addition1902 an organ and pews replacing

in 1928 the exte nor was refurbishedma g and classical detailing.wi. its natural -wood wall finish

e clia pa I society was organ i z edresidents. George M. Nash,

society the lot in 1876.act, was subsequently builtyears the Sunday schedulemass, a i.ate-morn ng non -

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gave the‘ihe original chapel, meas 30 by 60 fand dedicated on 18 July For manyincluded an early morning Catholicdenominational Protestant service, and early-eveningblacks in the basement. The chapel now measures 90has a seating capacity of 700. it is noted for thethe organ and chamber-quartet music that constitutesservices.

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57 Collins Cottage 1880; attributed to George Keller, architect:A 2-story, painted shingle Modern Gothic dwelling comprising anL-plan section, turned with its interior angle to the rear, and alarge square front tower at the end opposite the exterior angle ofthe ‘L. The "L" section is covered by intersecting gable roofs,creating an end gable at one end of the facade, and the tower istopped by a tall pyramidal roof with shed-roof dormers and a wrought-iron finial. There is a shed-roof front veranda with tapered square

- posts, surmounted by a narrow roof balcony the posts and balconyare probably later alterations , and projecting 1- and 2-story hayswith hip or shed roofs. Detail ing includes kicked-out wall sheathingcreatIng a stringcourse-like break between first and second floors,some patterned shingle work, and hargeboard trim. The house wasbuilt as a summer residence for Howard S. Collins of Hartford,director of the Collins Axe Company of Collinsville, Connecticut.

58 Ocean House 1867-68, altered and enlarged 1903 : A huge, compi exlymassed ciaphoad structure set on a hillside site overlooking BlockIsland Sound. The original portion, near Bluff Avenue, comprisestwo perpendicular 3½-story, mansard-roof wings with modill ion cornices,At the intersection of these wings there is a 5½-story tower with a

- mod i.llion cornice and a tall hip roof pierced by hipped doriners . Two4-story, parallel wings with low-pitch hip roofs run back to the -

southeast from the L-shaped portion of the building, rising above thehillside on high basements. The outer end of each wing contains arecessed, glazed porch at first-floor level. A columned ColonialRevival veranda, partly enclosed, runs along the southwesterly sideand northwesterly end of the building. The west end is also frontedby a 2-story, bow-front entrance portico with colossal Corinthiancolumns. The parallel, southeasterly wings were added in 1903,probably together with the veranda and portico. The Ocean Ihousewa.s built for George M. Nash, whose father, lighthouse keeper JonathanNash, was the first person to take seasonal boarders at Watch hill[he Ocean blouse is notable as one of the very few extant and function-i.ng [9th-century resort ‘hotels remaining in Rhode island.

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NC 59 blouse ca 1920? : A 1½- story, shingle dwell ing with a massive gable -

on-hip-roof pierced by recessed shed-roof dormners . An off-centeren trance under a segmnen tal hood is flanked by a mass ive cobblestonefront chimney on one side and a hay window with modern glazing onthe other. A garage bay is recessed in -one end of the facade and aporch, now enclosed, is recessed into the opposite end. The original

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- windows have - been replaced with modern casements and picture windows.This was probably constructed as a combination garage and chauffeur’scottage for Idle Rest number 164.

rambi i.ng, 2½-story, oai.nted shingle dwell ing coal-of unequal length a i-ranged -in a tooso , spi :iyed

by a low-pitch hip roof with overhanging,several eyebrow dormers . The house is

three massive stone chimneys and an octagonal, ogee- roofset in the central interior angle of the "M. Theconsists of asymmetrically disposed double-hung and

dows arranged singly and in groups, and there is anly placed, recessed entrance porch.

61 Windansea 1922; Mott B. Schmidt, architect : A whitewashed rubble-stone dwelling in the style of an Italian rural villa, compri sing a2-story rectangular block with a low-pitch hip roof and a range oftwo 1-story, flank-gable blocks attached to one side. The house hasan off-center, end-gable entrance pavilion with an arched window anda wrought-iron balcony over the -door; asymmetrical fenestration; andexposed-rafter eaves bracketing. A 2-story, gable-roof, detachedgarage stands to one side of the house. The house is fronted by acourtyard with a central well and a low stone wall around it. Thebuildings were constructed as a summer residence for Mr .and Mrs.William H. Andrews.- Mr. Williams was active in Pennsylvania politics,serving in the state leg:islative in 1889-90, 1895-98, and 1901-02.

- In 1902 he moved to New Mexico, where he was a member of the Tern -

tonal Council and president of the Santa Re Railroad.

CHAPEL PLACE

62 House early 20th centurygable roof, rafter-bracketby built-in seats shelteredaddition with sliding platecottage was reportedly buil

63 Breeze Cote ca12-story, gablepresent form incessed intoThe cottagenephew of H

60 House ca 1915 Aposed of Four wings"M" shape. It is coveredstick-bracketed eaves andanchored bystone towerf en e strati oncasement winasymmetrical

A tiny shingle bungalow with a low-pitcheaves trim, and a side-hall entrance flanked

by a shed hood on brackets . A rca r-gLass doors was hui.1.t ca 11980-81.. ‘l’hist as an outbuilding of the Shinkle estate.

1 885roofthe

altered early 20th century and ca 1955-GO:clapboard bungalow that- probah 1’ a ssumed its

early 20th century. it has a glazed porch re-the house mass, a side hay window, and shed dormerswas built for William C. Hastings of Yonkers, N .Y, a

artford and Watch b-li]. I resident -J ames L . b-Iowaoriginally stood on Mastuxet Terrace and was later moved

A

rd. Itto this site.

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NC 64 Sea Down ca 1925-30: A large, 1½-story, flank-gableCod type dwelling with an off-center, partly enclosedporch; a rear eli and porch; asymmetrical fenestnationdormers . It is now covered with aluminum siding. Itsite of the Atlantic House hote’ , which burned in [916was originally owned by Julia Howard Bush of ‘Iroy, N.Y

NC 65 Building ca 1925-30 : Awith a 1-story, shed-roof sidegarage and a small residential unit.the nearby dwelling Sea Down number 64

PVERETT AVENUE

66 The Dormers 1907 : A large Colonial Revival shingle dwelling witha massive, flaring flank-gable roof containing the second story andattic. The roof mass is broken by long shed dormers at second-storylevel and low, hip-roof dormers at attic level. The asymmetricalfacade contains an off-center, pilaster-framed, recessed entranceflanked by hay windows. At the rear is a lb-story, hip-roof, shingledcottage built 1927 that originally seTved as a servants’ residence.

67 Watch Hill Improvement Society 1916: A 1-story, cross-gable-roof,stucco structure with half-timber trim in the gable ends. The frontalwing contains a recessed entry framed by columns, set under a projecting cornice with bracket trim. The Improvement Society was foundedin 1888 and incorporated in 1889 by -35 Watch Hill men to foster civicpride and promote physical, public-health, social, and intellectualimprpvement in the community. By 1900 women had assumed a proprietaryrole in the organization. This building was given to the society byMary Clarke Newell in memory of Prances Ayres Clark and Anne StuhbsBurnet.

who became an associate justice of the 11.5. Supreme Court.

roof,front

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1½-story, gable-roof, shingle structureextension. It contains a two- car

It was built as a garage for

68 ,John II. Clark House ca 1890 : A 2-story, - flank-gable-roof. rec -

t a ngti I a r - hI ock , Modern Co I oni al - sty I e , sh .ngl e Iwel I I ng w i tll n openrecessed porch on one end which extends forward to Form a 2-story,polygonal, hip-roof porch tower enclosed with windows on the second-story level. The house has an off-center entrance, asymmetricalfenestration, and an off-center, hipped Front lormel-. This was bit ii tas a summer residence for -John I-I. Clark of Cleveland, an Ohio -attorney


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69 Rock Ridge ca 1887: ‘A complex, rectangular, 2½-story, cross-gable-roof, white-painted shingle dwelling with a 2-story hip-roof subsidiaryblock filling the angle between the front and side gables. Thissubsidiary block has a semicircular terminus on the -front end. Arecessed first-floor porch extends across the front end, under thesemicircular-ended block, and down the side of the house, and is nowpartly glazed in. The house was built as a summer residence -forLyneas Norton, a member of the Cincinnati syndicate that suhdividedthe former Everett Farm in 1886. It was later the property of HarryB. Joy, president of the Packard Motor Company.

70 The Dunes ca 1886 : A complex, 2½-story; flank-gable-roof, paintedshingle dwelling in a hybrid Queen Anne/Modern Colonial style. ‘ihefacade is broken by a 3-story, polygonal, hip-roof tower hay that isflanked by an off-center, gabled front dormer on the main roof mass.A 2-story, -flat-roof wing probably a later addition projects fromthe corner adjacent to the tower, and a screened wraparound verandasupports a second-story, turned-post balcony flanking the tower.

- Detailing includes some patterned shinglework, The house was builtas a summer residence for William A. Procter of Cincinnati, a partnerin the Procter ti Gamble Company. lt was later owned by New York Cityhanker and dry-goods merchant Ridley Watts of Far Hills, N.J.

71 Wendell Cottage, now Road’ End ca 1885: A 2½-story dwelling withclapboard and shingle wail cover, an asymmetrical facade with anoff-center front gable, an off-center front entrance porch now partlyenclosed , an asymmetrical flank-gable roof with one gable end and

-one gable-on--hip end, hip-roof dormers, and a 1½-story, gabled sidewing. The house was built as a summer residence- for Atwood C. Collinsof Hartford, president and chairman of the hoard of the U.S. Secur ityTrust Company, vice president f the Society for Savings, and directorof - the U.S. Bank, Farmers E Mechanics National Bank, the Aetna In-surance Company, and other Hartford-area bysinesses.

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72 Commercial Building ca 1930 A 1½-story, hip- roof, shingle structurewith plate-glass storefronts sheltered by a front veranda and hip-roof dormers breaking up through the eaves. ‘ -

73 Commercial Building ca 1920; A 2-story, flat-roof, shingle structureon a corner lot. A pent roof on brackets extends around two sidesof the building, sheltering plate-glass storefronts, and there is aroof parapet with stepped units rising at the center of each facade.

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74 Commercial Building castructure with end-gambcentral section. Its pveranda recessed underfronting the central section.

NC 75 Commercial Building 1960s : Aby a low-pitch cross -gable roof.a pent roof across the f;icade , anstairs and decks providing accesstion includes hay and picture windows.

76 Watch Hill Beach Associa ti on Since thehave been located near this site to servThe present structures are replacementshurricanes of 1938 and 1954..

NC- A Cabanas Ca 1955of composition-hoard

rectangular structure coveredet end to the street, withfirst-floor deck and exteriorsecond floor. The fenestia

mid -19th century, bathhousese bathers at Napatree Beach.erected after the destruct:ive

NC: B Cabanas andbuilding onpavilion on

Snack Bar Cawood pilings,the north side

i9s*: A 1-story, fiat- and shed-roofconstructed of plywood. It has a glazedwhich houses a snack bar during the summer.

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story and ainfluences of English

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and a shal low, shine wall surface. Thg toward the ocean -

t gable-roof paviliis one of several

1930 : A 1½- and 2-story, shingle neo-Colonialrd pavilions at each end of a gable-rooflate-glass storefronts are sheltered by athe end pavilions and covered by a shed roof

2-story,it is s

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A i-story structure on wood pilings constructedpanels, with a low-pitch shed roof.

77 Taurento ca 1907;white -painted shinglesaltbox-profile gableIts architectural

attributed to Edward F. Hinkle,dwell ing is an oversize hungroof encompassing its second

treatment refl ects theand Crafts andend facing thesheltered by aartfully pictura r ranged singlyover the ent ranwindow - Detaiwindow hood tha

Revival design.The facade contagable-roof Cob

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The house is set with a gableins an off-center entranceniai Revival portico andtration o.f multi -pane windows

roups including anarrow side lightsudes wi ndow boxesout gently from th

a recessed, glazed porch on the s.i de facinhouse ‘.s contained mass is broken by a shorthe inland side and by shed clormers. Thisdences built by the Griscomrented out for seasonal use

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NC 78 Lloyd House l970s: A 1½-story, flank-gamhrel-roofneo-Coloniaidwelling with a central entrance in a 7-bay facade and gabled dormers.It is covered with aluminum siding.

79 Ocean Mount, now Sea Swept ca 1880; attributed to arclii tect GeorgeKeller of llartford A 1½-story, cross-plan, cross-gable-roof, ModernGothic dwelling with a wraparound veranda, board-and-batten siding,jig-sawn vergeboards , and gabled dormers . On the southerly side thereis an extensive i-story addi tion with a very low-pi tch hip roof. i’hisaddtion, built about the turn of the century, has some modern fenestra-t ion.-- The house appears on the 1895 map of Watch Hill as the propertyof C . W . Hutchinson and uva s reportedly owned by Freeman Cudworth o.fPawtucket, R . I . , in 1889. During the early 1900s Ocean Mount wasoccupied by Frances C. Griscom of Tallahassee, Florida, daughter ofMr - and Mrs. Clement A. Griscom, who owned the nearby house Edged inumber 41. -

80 The Manor, now The Point 1906; Edward F. Hinkle , architectlarge, asymmetrical, 2½-story, hip-roof dwelling with Colonialand Craftsman detailing. Au end-gable front paviliOn containsentrance framed by engaged Tuscan columns and an entablature.entablature is surmounted by a balustrade that runs in front of aPalladian window. The front pavii ion is flanked on one side by a2½-story, hip-roof wing projecting forward from a corner of the ma inblock. -

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a fourth -order revo I vingn replaced by an electricccoed shed o rig imia I I vI lion so earl y 20thI radio- beacon tower.as the site for atower, was put in

the on gi nal structurereplacement by the present I ghthouse in 1855-56. Thekeeper, Jonathan Nash served 1808-ca 1835 , mi tiated theof Watch Hill as a summer resort by taking in seasonalthe 1830s.

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81 Watch Hill Light 1855-56 et seq. The light3-story, square, rock--face granite-block towerand glass lantern, attached to a2-stoTy, hip-keepers’- house with a 1-story eli extending tohouses’ s westerly side. The lantern containsFresnel lens whose onigina.l oil lamps have beeiamnli. ‘rue station complex also includes a sUmInmi Lt. as an oil house 1855-56, a brick sigmiacentury, a garage-workshop t939 , and a steeThe U.S. government purchased Watch Hill Pointlighthouse in 1806. The first light, a woodenoperation in 1808. Physical deterioration of

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gazebo on the grounds, constructed of massive timbers supportingogee-dome roof. The house is currently the summel- retreat of the

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NC 87 Watchit ca 1968; Robert Greene, architect:style dwelling with plate-glass sliding doors,

AH o garage recessed with the house mass, a second-shallow hip roof topped by a low-pitch gable -

Brewster of New York.

A 2-story,picture w

story deck, and aIt was built for

A 2½-story, flank-gable-roof dwell ing conih.i flingand French Provincial design. ‘Ihe ma in block,

&1 constructed of rubblestone, has a symmetrical 5-bay facade with Frenchdoors across the first floor. The doors in the two end bays aretopped by segmental pediments and the three center doors are surmountedby a shallow cornice - There is a broad front-cave overhang and a segmental-arch tripartite window in one gable end. The house has a sideci 1 and a rear dl , both shingle -clad wit-h gable - roofs - The ii rst

of the house was Lester N. Godfrey of Brookline,a lumber dealer.

known occupantMassachusetts,

MASTUXET TERRACE

gable-roof cottage with conta inedrs - It is located at the re-ar ofnumber 88

NC 90 House 1920s? : A small 1-story,center front proj ection containingporch in the interior angle foi-medj ection. It is clad partly with asconvex-pro file clapboards that givea log cabin.

gable- roof cottage wthe entrance and anby the main block ahestos shingle and

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91 House 19th century: A small 2-story, gable-roof, ciaphoardasbestos-shingle cottage in the 19th-century vernacular style,shah low eaves and gable returns and a shed-roof front porch -

:IEADOW LANE - - - -

92 Lyon No. 1 or Mijapoan ca 1900: A Modern* massive flank-gambrel roof encompassing its

88 Wildmoor* features

ca 1915of Colonial

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the house lot containingshed dormeWilcimoor

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Colonial cottagesecond story and

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The roof massupper slopes.partly glazedis screened-was hui it as aCincinnati see

is broken by shed-roof dormers inA columned Colon al Revival Front

wi-tb French windows to form a sun pThe ho use is now covered with ashesspeculative rental property for 9.numbers 93 and 97

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93 Lyon No. 2 or West Cottage ca 1900flank - gambret roo F containing the sroof slope is broken by an of -centThe house has a col umnecl Colon ialglazed with French windows to create

: A co nip act dive iii rig w i th aecond story and att i.c - ihe fronter end gambrel, and a shed dormer -

Re viva] front veranda now partlya sun porch - Ph is was built as

a speculative rental cottage For U. L. Lyon of Cincinnati see numbers92 and 97 - The house is now covered with asbestos shingles.

94 Samoset 1904 : A rectangular Modern Co honi ai dwelling withmassive flank-gambrel roof encompassing its second story andThe lower roof slope flares out in the front to cover a pairprojecting hays flanking a recessed, central entrance porch.exposed stone chimney is situated on one end of the hrii I ding.is a stone garage with half- timber detailing in its gable ends -

house was built for William J. Battey of Brooklyn, the owner of awoolen mill in nearby Pawcatuck, Connecticut.

story, Hawraparoundcorner balbroken byflanked byshingles,or 1. g .1. n allyto permit.1939icc to r ofas Arciidea

on a sloping sitePart of the house

modern hip - roof, ranch- type divewith a high basement story above gradeis supported by stilts.

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1888; moved 1914: An asymmetrical 2½-Queen Anne/Modern Colonial dwelling with awith aluminum columns and recessed front-nd-floor level - The front roof slope is

a broad, semi-octagonal, hip-roof turret hay whan eyebrow dormer, This house, now covered wi

was built for the Reverend and Mrs. Samuel P. Mstood across the street. It was moved to its

construction of the Anchorage no - 93 - Rev. Iwas an Ep i s copa I c i c rgyni;i n who served at va r i oparishes in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Newcon of Counectftut and Brooklyn - lie was also

History of the American Episcopal Church 1890 -

la ter owned by IVes terly merchant Robert Drysdal e -

NC 96 The Cedars ca 1975 : A

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97 Edgecove ca 1885: A large, 2½-story, cross-plan, cross-gable,Shingle Style dwelling with a wraparound veranda. The prominent,equilateral- triangle front gable sweeps down to encompass the secondfloor, with its recessed balcony, and continues to form the roofsections over the side wings of the veranda. On one side wing, thegable end has a jerkin.-head profile and a recessed second-story cornerbalcony - A small 1½-story, end--gabled cottage addi tion built ca 1980with a -front porch enclosed by sliding plate-glass doors, is attachedto the original house by a short elI and an enclosed section of theveranda. The house was built for ILL. Lyon of Cincinnati see 92 and 93.

98 Anchorage, now Channel Mark 1913-14; Wilson Lyre, Jr. of Phi lade lphiia,architect: A 2½-story, flank-gable-roof, rectangular-block ColonialRevival dwelling with a 1-story garage wing on one side topped by aflat roof with a roof balustrade. The asymmetrical facadecontainsa central Palladian stair-landing window between floor levels, anend-hay entrance under a shed hood supported by brackets, and a broadi-story hay window on the opposite end of the facade - Other detailsinclude pechimented dormers , a balustraded widow’s walk, and pal redexterior end-wall. chimneys. The chimneys ar-c inscribed wi Lii the dates‘‘1888’ and ‘‘1914’’. The earlier date refers to the construction ofthe original cottage on this site, now moved across the street seenumber 95 ; the later is the date of construction of the presentbuilding. The house was built for Annie B - Mc Connell , wi fe of theReverend Samuel P. McConnell.

99 Breezy Lodge , now Geranium Point 1902 e t seq - : Th i s was o ri g i mi I I ya svminetri cal 2½- story , Ii ip - roo f dive 11 in g ivi th a 3-h a y facade - Theoriginal portion has a central entrance flanked by French doors, afront veranda with a central front gable, a central secondfloor haywindow , and a shed- roof front. dormer. The house has been enlargedI’ the construction of a 2-story hip-ioof addition on one side withgla:ed sun porches on both levels. The veranda has been extended

- across the front of the addition; th i_s extensi on is a I so glazed -

the house was built for Henry A. Robinson of Yonkers, N. I -

100 Bl.vthiehourne ca 1885: A large, 2½-story, rectangular dweLlingcovered by a short - gable-roof section linking two massive end-jerk in- -

head-roof units that sweep down to encompass the second floor on eachend of the house. Its central front entrance isshingled-post, shed- roof porch - The roof massesand shed-roof dormers. On oneside thebetween second-story dormers to cover awas built as a summer residence for the

sheltered by a shallow,are bro ken by hip -

roof slope continues down1-story end porch - The houseReverend Summerfield F-.. Sn i vely


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MISQUAMICUT ROAD

101 Cloverly 1900; Horace Fraser of Boston, architect: An oversizebungalow-type dwelling with a massive roof encompassing its secondfloor and attic. The roof is unusual in -form, with a straight gableslope i.n front, broken by a broad cross-gambrel, and an angled gambrelslope in the rear, broken by shed dormers - The front slope sweepsdown to cover a recessed veranda,now glazed in - There are two rearells: one set off-center, perpendicular to the main mass, 1½ storiestall with a gambrel roof; the other running along the back of the mainmass, extending beyond the end of the house to terminate in a hip-roof sun porch - The house was built for William Procter arid Will jamAnderson, developers of the Potter Farm tract, as a speculative rentalcottage. lt was later occupied by Frank La*son.

102 Edgewater, now Gulnare 1913 : A 2½-story, flank-jerkin-bread- roof,English cottage-style dwelling - Tt has a central column-framed, recessed entrance; hay windows, deep eaves that curl up over the second-story windows, eyebrow dormers , a massive stone end chimney, and arecessed, stone-post rear porch. The house was built for C. PeytonRussell of Washington, DC. -

103 Dune Hame , now Fin-lea 1902 : A fine Modern Colonial dwel.l.i ng wi tha massive flank-gambrel roof containing the second story and attic.

- Its central entrance is sheltered by a U-shape wraparound veranda,surmounted in the front by a central pediment -gabled dormer that issurrounded by hip-roof second-floor and attic dorniers. There arepaired interior brick- chimneys and a Palladian attic window in thesouth gambrel end. The house was built as a summer residence -forSylvester C - Dunham of Hartford, pres ident of the Travelers’ InsuranceCompany and vice-president of the National Exchange Bank.

104 Westwater 1902: A 2½-story, L-plan, hip-roof dwelling with string-course detail ing between floors, deep eaves w.i th stick bracketing, andhi1iped dormers - An entrance porch is set into the interior angleof the ‘‘L,’ and there is a 2-story, flat-roo.f addition, similarlydeta iled, extending from the end of the wing parallel to the road -

The house was built for George N - McLanahan, a newspaperman fromWashington, D.C. see numbers 11, 152, and 166.

NC 105 House l920s ? with later alterati ons : A simple I -story, L-pI an,hip-roof structure with a modern picture window and sliding plate-glass doors among other types of fenestration. Now a residence,this building was originally a garage and was converted to itspresent use in the late 20th century.

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106 -Ridgeleigh 1902-03; Chapman Frazer of Boston, architects: alarge, rectangular, 2½-story, gable-roof, stucco Medieval Revivaldwelling with a slightly shorter dl running off the end at an angle.it has an off-center, gabled entrance pavilion; a subsidiary crossTgable; a wraparound veranda; eyebrow dormers ; and an end-gable overhang pierced by an end-wall chimney. The gables have bargehoard andhalf-timber trim which -evoke medieval design sources. The house wasbuilt for C .W. Hamilton of Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky.

NC 107 Bayswater 1950; Frank C. Ahearn, designer: A 1½-story, flank-gable,clapboard, Cape Cod-type dwelling on a sloping lot. It has a centralentrance, paired gable-roof dormers, an off-center interior chimney,and an attached garage proj ecting from one front corner, set slightlybelow the level of the house - This structure was built for Frank C.

- Ahearn, owner of the Ahearn Textile Company of Norwich, Connecticut.

108 Waveland 1933: A large, asymmetrical, 2½-story, hip-roe F, dwelli ngwith its mass broken into sections, angled backward to -follow tIrecurve of the road, its off-center entrance is surmounted by an orieland a gable dormer. The fenestration is irregular and the roof isbroken by a variety of hip- and shed-roof dormers -

109 House 1933: A small 1½-story, L-plan, cottage covered by a gableroof with hipped extensions across the gable ends. The frontal wing

- has a massive stone chimney on its front end and an entrance on theside, in the interior corner of the "L " This structure was originallybuilt as a garage and chauffeur’s quarters; it bias since been convertedto a guest cottage associated with Waveland see ahove -

NC 110 Cottage l930s : An unusual rambling structure centering on a small1½-story, flank-gable, shingle cottage, turned end to the street.The cottage has an of-f-center gable on the facade - This gable breaksup through a wraparound pent roof that extends well forward on thestreet end to cover an addition. At the opposite end of the cottagethere is a perpendicular 1-story, gable-roof wing - bhere is adetached gable-roof garage on the property.

NC 111 Toad Hall 1960s: A 1-story, flank-gable-roof, ranch-type clapboarddwelling.

112 House ca 1905; John A. Tompkins, architect; with later alterations:A rectangular-block structure of stone and shingle with a massiveend jerkin-head roof containing its second floor and attic. The


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roof mass is broken by jerkin-head dormers at the front and sides -

Alterations include a modern stickwork balcony on the front withsliding plate-glass doors opening ontoit. This building. was originally the garage and chauffeur’s quarters for Sowanni u number 113hut is now used as a residence -

113 Sowanniu, now Greyside North 1900; John A. Tompkins, architect : Alarge dwelling with rectangular-block massing and a massive flankjerkin-head roof containing the second story and attic. OFF-centercross-jerkin-heads break the roof mass at both front and rear, andthere -are ranges of shed dormers and gable dormers. Under the frontjerkin-head is the main entrance, with a Palladian window above it.The house was built for Alanson T. Enos. -

-NC 114 House ca 1940: A iarge, symmetrical 2-story, hip-roof, white-painted neo-Col-onial dwelling with a central block flanked by proj oct ing hip - roof wings -

115 - House ca 1920 : A 1½-story, flank-gable-roof, bungalow with afront porch recessed under the rooF mass and shed-roof dormersThis is now a rental property associated with the Misquamicut Inn -

NC 116 - Wee House ca 192-5: A 1-story, gable-roof cottage with asymmetricalfenestration. it was reportedly an outbuilding of the Potter Farmand was remodeled for residential use - It is a rental propertyassociated with the Misquamicut Inn -

117 Former Potter Farmhouse, now Misquamicut Inn -1778, 1896, et seq.:- A 2½-story, flank-gable-roof, structure with a glazed, partly re -

cessed front veranda, a central oriel on the facade surmounted by a- front gable, and a long rear eli - This was originally a 5-bay facade,

central entrance Farmhouse erected in the late 18th century. WilliamA. Procter and William P. Anderson purchased the Farm in -1896, subdivided the acreage into house lots, and remodeled the Fa rmliorise foruse as a hot-el known as the Na tch I-till brain I-louse . the name waschanged to Misquamicut Inn in 1900. Th isis one of the oldest surviving buildings at Watch Hill.

118 P’Iisquami cut Cottage ca 19 [0 : A compact Modern Colon ml dwell ingwith a massive gambrel roof containing the second story and attic -

It has a central - entrance; .a recessed, glazed porch at one front -

corner; shed dormers flanking a central front gambrel containing awindow topppd by a blind-fan motif; and lunette windows lighting theattic -


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NC l1 Fort Mansfield 1898, 1927: The ruins of four concrete gun emplaëe- ments and associated subterranean passages,overgrown with vines and

shrubbery, are set into a low hill at the tip of Napatree Point -

Fort Mansfield was- constructed by the federal government in 1898,but was already considered obsolete by World War I - The fort wasdismantled and the prope rty was sold to a consortium off Watch Hillresidents in 1927. -

‘IOWAM AVENUE -

120 Neowam 1900; Henry N. Wilkinson of Syracuse, architect : A cubical2½-story, hip-roo F, dwe lung with a proj ecting front veranda whi cli isalso -partly recessed into the house mass, broad eaves articulated withstick brackets, and a boulder chimney. The veranda has a centralgabled section covering the front entrance, set under a roundel ofpatterned shinglework at second- Floor level. ‘Ihe eaves curve upwardto Form ‘‘eyebrows’’ over the two second-story Facade,windows. Thishouse was hui It iii association wi tli the adjoining house, Wetumanelti,on Wauwinnet Avenue see number 214 -

122 Cedarhurst 1899, enlarged 1901 and 1913: A 2½-story, hip-roof,dwelling composed of two wings arranged at an angle. At the exteriorcorner ohtuse-angi e side there is a 2-story, end-gable entrancepavilion containing an open poi’ch surmounted by an open balcony. ‘Ihieentrance pavilion is Flanked on one side hy a semi-octagonal pro-ecting bay topped by a smaller tower that terminates in a conical-

roof turret. There is also an end-gable pavi lion in the interiorangle of the dwelling. The house was built for F .A - Hart and F.JBarney of Cincinnati. -

NEPUN ROAD - -

123 The Folly, now The Knoll 1899-1900; -John A. Tompkins GrosvenorAtterbury, architects : This IA-ge dwelling is in the Form -

121 I’age Cottage, now Sea Echo ca 1890: A handsome, complexly massed,2½-story Shingle Style dwelling with elements derived from New EnglandColonial and European Medieval design sources. The main block iscovered by a massive end-gable roof with a saltbox profile - It isfronted by an off-center, 2-story, end-gable entrance pavil ion comprising an dpen entrance porch below and an open balcony above, bothwith shingled posts. An asymmetrically placed eli extends at a rightangle from one side, with a flank-gable roof, a projecting hay window,a recessed porch that opens out onto an open terrace, and an overhanging gable end. The house was built for Mrs - C .E - Page

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of an oVersize bungalow, with a massive, sweeping flank-gable roofencompassing its second story and attic. The house is set end tothe street atop a slope. It originally had a recessed front verandawhich has beenenclosed, filling out the mass of the mai.n block.The roof slope isbroken by a pair of hip-roof second-Floor dormersand a central. jerkin-head atti.c dormer on the Front, and the gablepeaks at attic level overhang the second floor on each end. A small,1½-story flank-gable side dl has a hip-roof, monitor-like dormerunit set outside its roof ridge. Construction of this building wasinitiated by Mrs. George Hoadley and a Mrs. Scarborough without theknowledge of their husbands. The women ran out of money and thei rhusbands then had to finance completion of the project; hence thename "the Folly." The house was First occupied by Alanson T. Enosand later became the property of Mr. and Mrs. -William R. innis oFSouth Bend, Indiana. Mr. Innis was a vice-president of the Chicago

South - Bend Railroad, assistant treasurer of the Studebaker Company,- and a trustee of the New York Life insurance Company.

L. 124 Sunnycroft ca 1940 : A shingle and clapboard neo-Coloniai dwei lingcomposed of asymmetrically disposed 1- and 2-story gable-rooF units.it is set back on a large lot with a split-rail Fence that creates apicturesque rustic setting for the building. The present housestands on the site of the original Sunnycro-Ft , which was built in1900 For William A. Procter and William P. Anderson. -

NC 125 Leitrim, now Dolobran 1951 : A ramhlng 1-story, gable-roof, ranch-type dwelling composed of a few asymmetrically placedwings. It hasan ofF-center latticework entrance porch ofFset by a large how windowsurmounted by a Front gable;

NC 126 House 1981 : A 2½-story,block dwelling with sparseconcrete-block foundation.balcontes on the westerly elevation.

1½-story, Flank-gable-rooFCape Cod-type residence -

NC 128 Sinunons llouse 1953Cod - type dwel ting withgable frontal wing.

NI.ANTIC AVENUE - - -

129 Seaview, now Gitche Gumee 1895, 1898; Tracey Hagonigle of New

flank-gable-roof, containedneo-Coloniai detailing, set onIt has a 2-story deck on each

NC 127 Joseph Iesiliier House ca 1950: Adwelling in the foim of an enlarged

rectangular -

a highend and

A 1½-story, h-plan, gahle-rooF, modi Fied Capean oFF-center entrance in its ofF-center, end-

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York, architects : A 2½-story, cross-gable dwelling with an asymmetrical "T" plan. Its 2-story front veranda first story now in-filled has a semi-octagonal termination at one end, mirrored by a2-story bay window of identical form at the rear corner of the main

- block. The front roof slope is broken by three symmetrically spaced,hip-roof attic dormers. The shallow, off-center rear elI is flankedon one side by a 1-story, hip-roof bay and a hipped attic dormer.The house was built -for Miss F. Burnap and was first occupied by

- Mr. and Mrs. George H. Babcock oF Providence. Mr. Babcock was president of the Babcock Wilcox Boi icr - Company see number - 153 -

130 Edgemere 1886, altered 1899; Henry W. Wilkinson, architect of remodeling: A large, asymmetrical, complexly massed, 2½-story ShingleStyle dwelling combining features New England Colonial and European

- Medieval architecture. The main block, with a gable roof turned, endto the street, has a gabled side pavi lion and a wraparound verandaincorporating - an end-gable entry porch asymmetrically placed on thefront end. This porch is flanked by a deep polygonal hay topped bya heilcurve roof- whose eaves curl up to form an "eyebrow" over anarched second-story - window. A gabled side dl extends beyond thispolygonal bay, terminating in a hip-roof pavilion with an "eyebrow"eaves bend over--its second story window. The- street gable of themain block has a shallow proj ection at attic level, surmounted bya bulging curved hood over the windows. The house was built ForMrs - J. R - Skinner of Cincinnati and later became the property ofMrs. Skinner’s cousin’s widow, Mrs. William P. Anderson.

131 Spite House, also known as the Studio, now Sunnymere ca 1895, altered1900 : A 1½-story, gable-roof, compact L-plan dwelling with clapboardand shingle wall cover, a front veranda partly recessed into the housemass, and a screened side porch. A number of gabled and shed dormerscreate an irregular roof profile. Miss hi. Adams had this cottagebuilt immediately abutting Beiveduto see number 132 because Belvedutoobstructed the ocean view -From Wawaloam, her house on Westerly Road;hence the name Spite House. - -

132 Belveduto ca 1890 : A 2½-story, hip-rooF, cubical -mass dwell ing witha front veranda terminating in a circular gazebo, a frontal projectionover the veranda, a side eli , a side balcony, and gabled dormers - Thehouse was built for Westerly businessman George N. Burdick.

NC 133 House ca 1950: A 1-story, hip-roof, ranch-type dwelling with asymmetrical fenestration, picture windows, and sliding plate-glass doors -


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134 Intermere, now Pine Beach ca 1887: A large 2½-story Shingle Styledwelling with a complex, modified M-gahle roof embellished with sub-sidiary jerkin-head and hip forms and a number of hip, gable, and sheddormers. The house has an off-center gabled entrance portico, asymmetrical fenestration, horizontal breaks in the shingle cladding todelineate story levels, and glazed porches overlooking the ocean.The house was built for Sherman W. Kneval.

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135 Briarock 1911-12: A rambling, asymmetrical, 2-story dwellingcovered by low-pitch hip-roofs with deep eaves. The house mass isbroken by porches which are partly recessed. The building’s hon zontalground-hugging character and lack of applied detail give it anappearance similar to a modern ranch house. The house was built forChaHes V. Jones of Cincinnati, an attorney who also served at varioustimes as president, secretary, and treasurer of the Little MiamiRailroad and as president of the Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company.

136 Sunnymede ca 1890 with later alterations-.- A 2½-story, end-gable -

roof dwelling with a side-hall entrance sheltered by a low-hip-roof,columned portico; a 3-bay, polygonal, hip-roof side bay with sideextensions covered by shed roofs in a wing-like configuration; aglazed, octagonal "gazebo" porch on one rear corner, and a side porch.The house originally had a 3-story, ogee-domed front corner tower

- and a wraparound veranda which have been removed, and its originalstaggered-butt shingle cladding has been covered with aluminum siding.The house was built for Frank J. Jones of Cincinnati.

137 Pinecroft, later Tick-Tock House, now Minnebama 1899-1900; WilliamRalph Emerson of Boston, architect: A 2½-story, hip-roof Colonial

- Revival dwelling with a symmetrical 3:hay facade, a central end-gableroo F entrance pavilion, a front veranda, a dentil cornice, and hiproo F dormer. ‘Ihe second-story window in the entrance pavilion isF] aud<ed by J onic pilasters and surmounted by scroll unoti Fs thatsupport a lunette in the gable end ahpve. The house is now coveredwith a combination of painted and weathered shingles. It was builtFor G. Pierrepont Davis of Hartford.

138 The Fenways 1902-03: - A tall 1½-story, asymmetrical, stucco dwellingdescribed as a "French’ Farmhouse" at the time of its construction. It

- combines features of French Medieval and Renaissince design withcontemporary elements. The main portion of the house has a tall,flaring end-gable roof and is fronted by a flat-roof, screened porch

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with broad piers and Craftsman stick-brackets under the eaves. Thefront gable contains a second-story ori.el surmounted by a gable-peakoverhang carried on massive carved brackets. To one side there isa 1½-story, hip-roof wing with shed dormers and French windows surmounted by blind arches - The house was built For Herbert N. PenneroF Providence, one of the few Rhode Island residents to summer here.Penner was president of the New England Butt Company.

139 Sea Crest 1886, with later alterations? : A large, complexly masseddwelling comprising a 2½-story, cross-gable-roof, irregular cross-plan section with a 2-story, flat-roof addition on one side ..The

- main section has a prominent end-gable, of- -center front pavilioncontaining a central entrance under a gabled portico. The entranceis flanked by projecting subsidiary pavilions, one with a gable roofand one with a flat roof. The flank-gable slopes arebroken by sheddormers. The blocky 2-story, flat-roof addition, with a Chinese-chippendale-style roof balustrade, fills out one front corner oF themain mass and extends well beyond. The house was built for Davis C -

Anderson of Cincinnati.

140 Ninigret 1899-1900; Tracy f Magonigle of New York, architects : A2½-story, hip-roof dwelling combining elements of Colonial Revivaland Craftsman design. The main block is a rectangular mass, withhorizontal proportions emphasized by a break between the first and

- second floors and the roof’s low pitch and deep eaves - A gable-roof,Craftsman - style timberwork porch shelters a- cent ral front entrance,flanked on each side by a shallow rectangular bay with a triple window.The eaves are trimmed with stick brackets. On one side there is an-dl nearly as large as the main block. It is one story tall in frontand two stories tall at the rear, and was added at a later date. Thehouse was built for George A. Pope oF Baltimore.

I’ll Wayne Co ttage 1898; John Kenyon , a rchi tect : A 2½ - story, h I p - roo F,uectangulai--hlock dwelling with a Front veranda arid a central Frontgable. The veranda is now partly glazed and terminates at one endin a circular, conical -roof gazebo. Beneath the Front gable thereisar ecessed second-floor balcony balcony Flanked on each side by ahay window. The house also has a number oF gabled and shed dormersand a short, gable-roof rear eli - it was constructed for J. S - Wayneof Covington, Kentucky.

142 SurFside 1886: A 2½-story, end-gable-roof dwelling with a side-hallentrance sheltered by a flat-roof portico. There is a long, 1-story


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side veranda, -now glazed, with a tall ‘hip rooF pierced by a gable -

roof pavilion that proj ects from the second story. The front gablehas an overhanging peak above the attic windows - The house is nowcovered with aluminum siding. lt was built for IV. Snowden Smith.

143 The Boulders; LaMaritima 1898; ‘I’racy Magoni gte oF New York, arch- tects : An eclectic Shingle Style cottage combining Features drawn

from New England Colonial and European Medieval sources. The mainmass of the house is a horizontal rectangular block with a flank-gambrel roof encompassing its second story and attic. At one end ofthe Facade there is a proj ecting end-gable pavilion with deep eavesboxed in and shaped to form a Gothic-arch recess at attic level.This pavilion is ofFset by a front dormer with a very steep gableroo F, and there is a tiny dormer with a high-peak hip roof betweenthe pavilion and the gabled dormer. A wraparound veranda constructedof small boulders continues through the first-story oF the Frontpavi lion as a recess the veranda is now gla zed . There is a 2-story,semi-circular hay window at the rear corner of the end opposite theFront pavil ion. The house was built -For Will iam N - Greene - -

144 i’lie Cedars ca 1.890 with later additions: A iarge, rambLing 2’-story Shingle Style dwelling articulated into two dist inct sub -

sections. The main bloc-k, covered by an M-gahle roof, is vaguely‘‘Colonial’’ in character. It has a second-story overhang, an asym-metrical fenestration incorporating a Palladian window randomly placedas a decorative element. Attached to the main block is a large wingwith elements derived From late Medieval French architecture. Thissection has a tall hi p roof and shallow, pol ygonal corner hays withsemi-conical turret roofs that barely project from the main mass.The first- floor facade of this end with the shall ow bays is constructed of small boulders - The junction of the two sub-sections isanchored by a 2-story tower with a conical roe F. The house was builtby Dr. - Joseph P - Anderson and was sold soon a Fter to Mr. and MrsNelson Penn of Baltimore. -

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146 House ca 1920 : A tiny 1½-story, hallcurve-gahle-roof, cottage witha recessed front porch, a side-hall entrance, and a shed-roo F Frontdormer. -

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NC 147 House ca 1915: A 2metrical fenestra tionentrance vestibule inslab chimney of brickstructed as a carriagbeen converted into a

-story, L-plan, hip-roof structure with asymincluding some modern windows , a projectingthe interior corner of the "L, and a prominentflanking the vestibule. It was possibly con

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148 Thalassa; Shadybrook 1900: A 2½-story, flank-gable-roof, rectangular-block dwelling with a symmetrically designed main mass and aglazed sun porch on one side, The house hasa recessed front veranda,also glazed, that extends beyond the end of the house to form the sunporch. There is a central entranceway marked by pairs of engagedcolumns that support an entablature and a balustrade applied to thefacade of the house. The front roof slope is broken by a hip-roofdormer. The house was built for Mrs. G.W. Russell of Hartford.

149 Treasure Hill Gatetower about 15 feeappendage on one siron strap hinges.main house of which

Lodge 1923: A tiny conicalt in diameter, with a small hiide. It has a segmental-arch

It was part of the Treasureburned in 19-76.

-roof cylindricalp - roof rectangular100 r with ornateHill estate, the

evival stucco dwellingfacade, deep eaves andThere is a modern 1-stwindow on the front,Providence, president

A 2½-story, flank-gable-roof,with an off-center entrance,gable rakes with returns, andory, gable-roof addition on

The house was bui it foro.F the A.T. Wall Company,

151 Log Cabin, later Windswept, now Longshore Il 1903,1958: This building originated as a log house andin 1913 into a rambling Modern Colonial dwelling wigambrel rooF containing its second story and attic.veranda on one flank is surmounted by hi pped dormertrance was originally located under this veranda,moved to an off-center, partly recessed entrancefacing the street. A gambrel-roof side wing withdormers flanks this entrance porch. The house wasI-I. Davis.

altered 1913 andwas remodeled

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152 Windridge and Windvale 1916: A pair bf 2½-story, stone and shingleShingle Style dwellings linked by a 1-story, flat-roof rubblestoneconnecting wing. Its architectural vocabulary is drawn from Englishmanor houses. Beth houses are L-shaped -in plan. - WindTidge has ahip roof on one wing intersecting a gable roof on its other wing,while lvindvale is covered by intersecting gable roofs. The houseshave asymmetrical fenestration and asymmetrically placed, massiveslab chimneys of stone. The ensemble is built into a hillside sothe houses are 3½ stories tall at the rear. This picturesque complexwas built for Mrs. George W. McLanahan, the wife of a Washington, D.C.,newspaperman see numbers 11, -104 and 166. - -

153 El Reposo 1900-01;Mission style dwellhas an L-shape planside winarches,original-interior corner ofporch in the frontsemi -octagonal haytr liii at the eaves -

turret rises abovehas a demical roofeaves. ‘the houseNew Jersey, presidentnumber 129 -

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NC 154 Building ca 1925-30 with later alterations : A 1-story, hip-reef,- pink-painted stucco structure that was originally -a garage for El

- fteposo number 153 hut is now a residence. It has an off-centerfront porch and asymmetrical fenestration combining original and

- modern replacement windows. It resembles a small ranch-type dwellingoF the l950s or 1960s . - -

1 55 Over look 1902-03: A 2½-- storyColonial Revi val and Craftsmanhi I Is ide. the house compriseson each side by splayed wings.inent level in the central blockColonial Revival portico toppedThere is a Palladian motif overhorizontal -hand triple window a

hi p - roof Sh i hg Ic Style dwell i rig w i thelements, set into a gently slopinga nar row - Front cent ra I h I oc k ft an he4

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beneath a square-pier, flat-roofby an interlace roof balustrade.the portico and a diamond-pane,

hove the Pal lad ian meti f - One wing

E.F. Gilbert of New York, architect:ing with stucco walls and pantile hipcomprising a 2½-story frontal wing an

g. A projecting entranceand a shaped roof parapetapplied Spanish Baroque

the "L" and.of the sidewindow on it

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ects to a recessed segmental -arcadeThe frontal wing has a deep

de and filigreed vergehoarde house, a square, belfry- liker hipped dormers. This turretts forming deep square-plan

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contains a recessed first-floor porch; the other hasflat- roof addition appended te it. The roe F, brokenhas deepeaves with Craftsman stick bracketing. Theas a rental property for Sherman W. Kneval and a Mr.later became the property of Frederick Brooks of Newpresident of Brooks Brothers -

NC 158 Houseend-wall chimneyclaphoard siding

A small 1-story, gable-roof cottageand a deep square-post front porch.gives it the rustic appearance of an

with an exteriorIts dark-stainedAdirondack

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156 The- Timbers 1917-20; John Russell Pope, architect : A ramhl ingasymmetrical Tudor Revival style dwelling composed of 24-story,gable-roof units. Three short wings are arranged to form splayed"U" which is attached hy one of its sides to a long, rectangularmain block. The first story of the house is fieldstone, with whitepainted brick and half-timber construction above. The mass oF thehouse is enlivened by numerous projections, hays, and overhangs;gabled and shed dormers ; and massive rihbed slab chimneys withchimney pets, one in the Form of a hellcete . The property encompassesa guest or caretaker’s cottage and a combination garage/chaufFeur’ sresidence, heth executed in the same picturesque style and materi :-ilsas the ma.i n house. The estate was huilt for Mr. and Mrs. GeorgeHewitt -Myers o:F Washington, B. C. Mr - Myers was an i nves trnent hanl<c’ rwi tli interests in -forest production

157 Graydon 1900;usual 2½-story

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Shingle Style dwelling with a symmetrical main blockmodeledings of

after the17 t Ii - cent

and a long rear wing. It is looselylate medieval/early Renaissance dwelland colonial America. The mainfirst story with shingled framerectangular-block mass topped bycentral end-gable front pavilionthat extends through the base ofentrance porch. Above the entrybalcony, hacked by a tripartitecat fan. ‘there is a glazed sun

- and a s Ii a I lower N a y win dew on t hcontains Several shed and archedframe re-ar wing terminates in abreaking up through the eaves.Company of Westerly for Mr - andMr. Painter was a son of Jacob Pa inter

section, built of fielconstruction above, isa gable-on-hip roof.projecting ever a stethe pavilion to Formto the entrance porch

window surmounted by aporch en one side of tire other side. Ihe gab I

dorme rs - ‘the 2-story,hip-roof pavilion withThe house was bui I t hyMrs. Park Painter of P

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there is ahi.i rid ci. lipti-e ma in blockc-on-hip rooFshingled

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NC 159 House ca t940 A 1½-story, L-plan, gable-roof cottage with dark-stained clapboard siding and a small porch sheltering the main entrance.

160 Bellefort, Yosemite ca 1917 A picturesque 2½-story stone andstucco dwelling in a sophisticated revival style based on Engl islidomestic architecture of the Stuart period - The house’s long rectangular-block mass is covered by a hip-reef with extended sideslopes. An off-center, end-gable front pavilion contains asymmetrically placed vertical- and horizontal-hand stairhal 1’ windowsand an entrance sheltered .by a smal 1, off-center stied-roof perch.The asymmetri cal fenestration includes glazed arches that light arecessed porch at one end of the house. The roof, anchored hy apair of tall, pilaster-and-panel interior chimneys, contains smallhip- roof front deriners and a large gabled side dormer over the recessed end porch.

161 Norman Hal.!, later Stone House or Tilime Castie IBIS- 16; MoN IT.Schmidt of New York, a rcli i tect A large, ramnhi i rig, storydwelling- of coursed rock-face stone, built in the Norman Farmhousestyle. The main block, with. a tail hip-roof, has a long gable-roofwing running at an angle off one front corner. A 1-story, cyl imidrical, conical-roof entrance tower is set off-center en the facade nextto a 2-story, end-gable stair tower. A hip-roof pavilion with arecessed, arcaded perchin its base is attached to the side oppositethat with the angled wing, and the rear facade has a shialiocv, end-gable pavilion and a tall cylindrical, conical-roof tower at thejunction of the main block and the angled wing. The house is set onwell -landscaped acreage with several Norman-style stone outbuildings.It ‘was built for Wil ham IV. Lawrence, who died a month after itscompletion, whereupon the property was sold to C. Ba i Li lime ofChicago. Mr. li-lime was president of the Matthiesen hlegher ZincCompany of lasalle, I Lii.nois, amid served as a director of severalChicago-area banks and Oklahoma and Montana. mining companies.

162 Sea Ga rdens 1954 David Osborne, architect A 2-story, lila t - roof,clapboard Con temperary style dwell imig with a synimetrica I fenes t rat] onof casement, awning, and plate-gi ass windows and an extensive second-story deck on stilt supports. Michigan architect David Oshorne builtthe house as a summer residence for himself.

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NC 163 Ward House ca 1916 A 1½-story, rectangul ar-block dwelling coveredhy a flank-gable roof with hip extensions across the ends. Acentral cress-gable in one flank and long shed dormers dominatemai.n roof mass so it -is nearly invisible. Fenestration i. asymmetrical, with a number of medern windows in place of the origiones. Extensive alterations, including a 1-story sun porch onend and sliding plate-glass doors opening ontoa deck, give thithe appearance of a mid-2Oth-century suhurban tract dwelling.house was built for Wilfred Ward of Westerly.

164 Idle Rest ca 1916 A tall, 1½-story, rectangular-block shingledwelling with a broad fl-gable roof encompassing its second story andattic. It has an off-center entrance sheltered by a flat-roofportico and a side addition. Shed-roof dormers oneach Flank of small recessed balconies. A numherof first-floor replaced with modern fenestration -

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16S Misquamicut Golf Club 1900 et seq. ; Atterhury Tompkins of NewYork, architects A rambling 2-story Shingle Style building offieldstone and shingled-frame construction, wi tihi complex massing

- produced by a series of stylistically compatible additions to theoriginal, smaller clubhouse. The oldest portion of the building isa contained, symmetrical rectangular block with a massive hip reefencompassing the second fleer and attic. This block is flanked basymmetrical hip- roof wings, one rectilinear, the other L-shapedin plan. The ‘‘L’’ wing, fronted by a s tone-pest porch with a portecochere, terminates at a 2 -story, irregular-octagonal pavilion witha tall pyramidal roof. The most distinctive features of the buildingare several broad, low j erkin-head dormers in the roofs of the mainblock and wings. -At the rear of the ma i.n block, a curved sun porchis surmounted by a similarly shaped dormer cappedwith a low semi -

conical roof. The Misquamicut Golf Club was founded in 1895 andoriginally purchased property on the opposite south side of OceanVi ew I-highway, where it developed a 9-hole golf ceurse and convertedan old corn crib into a clubhouse. The present course was laid outby the late Donald Ross, America’s foremost golf-course architect.A tennis clubhouse on the grounds, designed by Lyman Goff of Watchliii, and hui it in 1979, is a whimsical small-scale adaptation of

McKim, Head fT White’s Newport Casino.

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167 Clinton Cottage 1897: A 2½-storyAnne/Shing Ic Style dwell ing with averanda portions of which are a las ide bay window topped by a gahi.e -

with- al umi num s i cI i.mig hut the uppercladding, with some patterned work

168 Pomptookit 1923 : A 1½- to 2-story, gable-roof, k-plan, stuccoTudor Revival dwelling with half-timber trim in the gables - It hasa gabled entrance pavilion in the interior corner of the ‘‘L, ‘‘ anexterior stone chimney on the front of the flank wing, shed-roof doorhoods, and a shied dormer and skylights in the roof. Some of thefenestrat:i.on has been replaced with modern windows - ‘l’Iie Iiotise wasbuilt for firs. Henry Van Cleef of New Haven. Its unusual name isderived from firs . Van Cleef’ s maiden surname, Pomp. The Pomp familyreportedly won this property in a lottery conducted at the. time this

- land was subdivided.

169 Lermoh, now Baycroft 1902-03.: A contained rectangular-block ModernColonial dwelling set end to the street, with a massive, bellcurveflank-gambrel roof containing its second story and attic. Its off-center entrance is sheltered by a recessed Tuscan-column veranda onthe westerly facade that extends across the rear end of the houseas a proj ecting porch. there is a hay window on the street end anda garage addition cit 1982 -83 that extends forward from the house -

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Al I have low hi p roofs except the central front dormer , which biasa flat roof originally topped by a roof balustrade. The house wasat one t ime occupied by Robert N - Wi llson , a prominent Philadeiphi aphysician -

- 170 Idle Hour ca 1890: A 2-story, Lplan dwelling covered by intersecting flank- and end-gable roofs - It is set with its dl towardthe rear. An entrance centered in the facade is sheltered by a frontveranda that is now partially enclosed. The house is new covered withaluminum siding - There is. a tiny 1-story, flank-gable-roof guest

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perch, and a segmental hay window.les , an fl-gable, and hipped and shiedas a rental property -for George W.and was first occupied by F.. N - Benson

end-gable-roof, vernacimbar Queenside-hail en t-rance , a wraparoundter addition, and a 2-story

The first story has been coveredlevels retain thei r sh-ingi ein the gables.

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171 Wauwinnet ca 1897; alvernacular Queen Annearound veranda ; and acorner bay over the yefor Robert Drysdale of

tered 1903: A. 2½-story,dwelling with a side-hailsecond-story, semi -conicalranda .a later addition.Westerly.

cross-gable-roof,entrance; a wrap--roof, polygonalThe house was built

172 Reginald Peck House 1930s: An unusual 2-story,tangul.ar-hiock dw- lung with a stone first story,story, and an arcaded, stone front porch that isvines. The house has a flat reef edged by a hippwith pantiles. Its asymmetrical fenestration isframe casement windows - The house was built forWesterly, a local historian and author -

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173 Rema ins of Old Red House, also Ahorignes 1828, 1902 : Thisasymmetrical 1-story building composed of gable- and shed-

was the ide cli of a residence erectedin 1.828 -for Nathane or.gnai. main block of Old Red House was a i.’-story,c-roof, center-chimney dwelling with a S-hay facade andentrance, in 1902 Captain Walter H. Davis of the WatchSaving Station made alterations to the house, includingon of a wraparound veranda and gabled dormers, amid re-

174 Bungalow-on-Cove, now Cove Cottage 1902 : A picturesque 1½-- story,flank-gamhrel-roof, Colonial Revival cottage with a front veranda,a center-hall entrance, an exterior end-wail chimney, and a longfront dormer with a shed-roof central section connecting a pair ofpedimneiited end mmni.ts . The house was built for the Reveremid A.H.lewis, one-time pastor of the Westerly Seventh-flay Baptist Church,and was later occupied by William L. Russell, a promnimient psychi -

atri st from the metropol itan New York City area.

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175 Former P1 ympton h-house Cottage2-story, hip-roof, stucco dweveranda with stuccoed posts -

property affiliated with the

ca 1915 : A synmimmetricaliling with a partially emmclIt was originally huilt as

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rambi. ingroof unitsFitch. ‘I’biflank- gahia centralHill Life-the additinamed the property Aborigines , because it was onehouses in Watch Hill. The main portion of the hoan arsonist in 1980, leaving only the former side

of the oldestuse was- burnedeli standing.

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176 Former Plympton House Cottage ca 1915 : A tall 2½-sjerkin-head-roof, symmetrically designed stucco dwellveranda new enclosed and hipped front dormers - Itrental property a ffili ated -with the Plympton House hotel

tory, fl ank-

ing with a frontwas built as a

NC 177 Commercial Block ca 1950: A mnodern 1 -story storefront hu ii di migwith a parapet at the front and a low-pitch shied roof. It iscove red with vinyl siding - During the summer It houses the WatchHill Post Office, a seasonal stati on that closes‘for the winter -

178 Former, Plympton House Cottage Ca 1915 : A 2½-story, hip-roof,symmetrical, cubical-mass dwelling with a Tuscan-column front verandanow partly enclosed, hiiped dormers, amid additions on one side andthe rear. It was built as a rental property associated with thePlympton House hotei -

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180 Sunswept late 19th cemitur : A 1½-story, flank-gablenacular dwelling with a central entrance, a wraparoundveranda now partly enclosed, and twin front gahles.portedly moved to this site from a location on Bay Street

181 Former Plympton h-house Co ttage ca 191pyramidal-roof, Shingle Style/Coloniaco I.ummi wraparound verahda now partlya con tnt I on ci omm tIme facade , a mmd Iii.a rental property associated w:itbm thme

5: A symmetrical1 Revival dwell ingbnclosed, a cent

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182 hlouso 1920?: A lowhungalow with deep evdwellings desgncd iiy

1-story, hip-rooferhiangi ng eaves.Fra mik LI oyd Wr-igli t

asymmetrically massed stimccbIt resemhles some of the early

183 lntercrest 1898: A 2½-story, end-gahle-roof,Anne vernacular dwell ing with an off-center, ention; an end--gable sidle projection; a s-ide-halby a wraparound come r ye m’anda sit rmnounted by a

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placed with modern sash- The structure was at one time a rentalproperty affiliated with the Plympton Ihouse hotel.

2 ½ - storyth a Tuscan-

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oculus windows in the subsidiary gables; and an eyebrow dormer. The -

house was built by Randolph, Bentley Company of Westerly for J .P -

Champlin, proprietor of the Ocean Househotel -

184 Altoma-re 1901-02: An unusual 2½- story, hip -roof dwelling with acontained recti linear nias5 encompassing a recessed , wraparound Tuscan -

column veranda now partly enclosed . A schuat , conical -roof, ocTtagonal turret is perched on one corner of the roof, which is brokenby hipped dormers and a tripartite dormer with an arched central.section flanked by hipped t.inits - The house was huilt for .1 .F. Champlinproprietor of the Ocean House, and was first occupied by J - B. Dixonof Morristown, N.J. It was later the summer residence of George H.Ba rhour of Grosse Pointe , Michigan , a promi nent Detroit busi nessmnanwho served as first president of that city’s ChiamheT of Commerce andas one-time president of its City Council -

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NC 185 h’house 1960s: A 1-story, flank-gable-roof, shingle and plywoodranch-type dwelling with a hoxy dermner additiomi hoimsimig a secondfloor - ‘ -

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186 Meadholme 1900; Chapman f Fraser of Boston, architects : A 2½-story,flank-gable-roof, stucco Medieval Revival dwelling with asymmetricallyplaced subsidiary gables breaking up through the eaves and hal f-timbertrim. The off-center entrance is sheltered by a gabled porch andthere is a 1-story, hip-roof sun porch on one end of the building -

The house was built for Dudley Phelps -

1.87 Kenneth Ridge ca 1898 with later add:tiomms : A large, rammmhl ing,conmplexly massed Colonial Revival dwelling. The main block issymmetrical, with a projecting, endl-gahle central entrance pavilionand a hip roo.f with seraiconical side extensions covering pa i redsLdle bows . The pavi lion is fronted Iy a. porte -cochie ro lvi th a roofhalustrade, and its pedhiment-like gable is flanked by each sidle bya gabled dormer in the main roof. A long 2½-story, cress-gable sidewing a later addi ti on extends from one side of the main block. Ithas -a 1-story front addition and ga-bled dormers - The house was builtfor Daniel J. Sully 1861-1930 , a Providence-horn New York Cityresident who was a commodities and securities broker with offices inboth cities - He cornered -the cotton market in 190-3-04, earning forhimself the nickname of "Cotton King." Sully’s daughter Anna Beth


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married actor Douglas Fairbanksshow-business colleagues visitedand Harold Lloyd- -and Douglas Paas a child.

188 The Arches, now Ridgecrest 1903 with later alterations: A 2½-story,hip-roof Colonial Revival dwelling in the forni of a long, containedrectangular block. A slightly projecting, shallow hip-roof, centralentrance pavilion is fronted by a semici rcular Tuscan-column porticowith a roof balustrade. A tripartite window above this portico isframed by carved garland panels. The fenestrat ion on the facade isasymmetrical, incorporating a single ova.I window in the arrangement.There were originally recessed porches in each end of the house; onehas been enclosed, the other has been glassed in to make a sun porch.

- The roof mass is brokenby stone chimneys and hip-roof dormers. Thehouse was built for Mrs. C - Byron Cottrell of Westerly -

189 Sunny Ledge ca 1915 : A Modern Colonial dwelling with aflank-gambrel roof containing the second story and attic -

oriented with its back to Ridge Road, with a projecting,steep-gable-roof dl proj ecting from one corner. The strtion is asymmetrical. An entrance is located in the endthe gabled ell. -

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N-C 190 Lyman B. Goff -House 1973; Lyman B. Goff, architect:Contemporary-style dwelling built on a hillside, compometrically stacked, flat-roof, box-like units. lt hashoard siding and large plate-glass windows.

A 1-story, hip - roof, ranch - type dwell inginto the contained rectangular-hiock mass

192 Electric Substation 1914:structure with segmnental-archend chimneys -

the Norwich

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193 Lillianmass, vcc ss ccl

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House 1912 : A compact 2½-Shingle Style/Colonial Reviv

porch running along one side,

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197 Bonnieview, no Stonecroft ca 1885 with later alterations : A tall1½-story, flank-gable- roof dwelling with a central front gable, afront veranda, and a I - story side additi on, and a rear dl - Theverandla lmas umumsim;ml posts, sqmmare in section, cutthere is a broach-roo.f squaretower i,n one corner

in zig-zag shapes.formned by the ma .i n

with asbestos siding, the houseivi th staggered-butt shimmg]ework

hi e screens c.omnposed oF t.i nvmmd:m posts. The house was hum i I t

Westerly as a rental cottage. Tt was movedanother location-.

198 Ha rvey Cottage caa large, central jeroof rear eli. Thecessed veranda with

1890 : A 2½-story, flank-gable-roofrkin-head-roof dormer on the front afront roof slope extends forward toturned posts and lattice trim. The

dwelling withnd a gambrel -

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GUs: A 1-story, flank-gable-roof, aluminum-sided ranchling with two small gable-roof, mid-2Oth century guest

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195 Moorcioft , now Acropolis ca 1885 : A lowmass dwelling with its second-story windowsdormers breaking up th ough the eaves. Itroof corner hay over a wraparound veranda.partly enclosiron lattices rdmngma i n t ai n epresent 5

2-stoy, hip-roof, cubical-contained in gabled

has a semi-octagonal, flatThe veranda has been

ed and its original posts have been replaced by wroughtsupports. The exterior has been covered tvi th altmmi nrmm

It was built by A. Maxson F Company of Westerly andd by them as a rental cottage. The house was movedite in .1902. -

196 Sunset V jew 1899; Greenleaf Cobb of Boston, architects : A handsome Queen Anne/Shingle Style dwelling of stone and white-paintedshingle, with a broad, massive flank-gable roof encorapassing itssecond floor -arid attic. It is set end to the street, with recessedcorner porches flanking a bay window covered by a deep overhang ofthe gable end. It has a pair of semi-octagonal, semi -conical -roofdormers on one flank and a 2b-story eli on the other flank. Thehouse was built for Dr. F. AZ. Lewis , a Westerly physician

block and the rear eli. Now coveredwas originally elaborately detai led,plain bargeboards, and arch-motif gatwisted halusters enmimlatimig time ver:mby A - Maxson Comnpany ofto this site in 1902 from

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199 Sunnyridge 1903 : A 2½-shingle, Lngl ish Cottage -

extended side slopes. Ithip-roof hood on brackets;hipped dormers ; and bracketMrs - G. Richmond Parsons of

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story, rectangular-block, white-paintedstyle dwelling covered with a hip roof with

Ilas a recessed central entrance under aa recessed, corner sun porch on one end;s accenting the eaves. It was built for

Prov i dlence

200 Stone Leigh 1915 : A large 3½-story, rectangular-block dwellingwith a massive M-gahle roof containing its third story and :mtti c.it is set so- the roof is oriented gable-flank to time street, witha large gabled dormer in the front slope and shed dormers fillingthe valley of the "M. The house has a 2-story side wing with alow-pitch hip roof, and a stone post, gabled portico sheltering theoff-center entrance. The house was probably built for the Curtisfamily and was once occupied by Rebekah Harkness , director, of theHarkness Ballet see number 49.

NC 201 Windrose Cottage 1955; T. Frederick Norton of Mysticarchitect : A picturesque 1½-story, flank-gable-roofCod-type cottage with a projecting garage wing at one

Connecticut,clapboard Cape

-front corner.

202 ileadowcrest ca. 1916; attributed to William John Cherry of New York,architect : An a symmetrical 2½ - s tory dwel ling distinguished by itscomplex roof mass. The main roof is imipped in form with extendedside slopes, intersected by a cross-jerkin-head unit near one end ofthe building. There are shed and jerkin-head dormers in the sideslopes and shed dormer in the long flanks of the main hip roofthe profile of the roof has been changed slightly by later alterations . The mnain entrance is located in one end of the cross-jerkinhead roof section. The fenestration is asymmetrical, with a pentroof on brackets over some first-story windows. On the water frontof the house, the lawn is terraced, witim a stone retaining wall incorporating buttresses and sections of arcading . The house was


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bdilt for Bradford Shinkle of Covington, Kentucky, president of theCovington Gas Company.

203 Wildacre 1916; William John Cherry of New York, architect : A large2½-story, jerkin-head-roof, weathered-shingle, EngI ish Cottage-styledwelling with an off-center ent rance under a bracketed hood; asymmetrically arranged rectangular, arched, and segmental-arched windows;shed dormers ; a massive -exterior end- chimney of stone; and 2- and1-story wings running off one side. It was huilt for F. KingsburyCurtis, previously owner of Shortlands see above . Curtis was act ivein the -development of Tuxedo Park, New York, and Wildacre was part ofa small, developmental subdivision known as Tuxedo Homes - -

204 Shoreby ca 1915 : An asymmetrical 2½-story, L-plan, stucco dwell i ngOne wing has a massive gable roof encompassing its second story andattic, and the other wing is covered by a hip roof with an extended

- slope on the narrow end. - Each wing has a recessed porch at -its end.The one in the gabled section has stone posts and is now infi lied;the one in the hipped section is arcaded - The main ehtrance , shelteredby an arched copper hood, is located in a polygonal 2 -story, flat- roof

- pavilion set in the interio,r angle of the ‘‘U.’’ Massive brick slab- chimneys rise above the roof, which contains shed and gabled dormiiers

According to local tradition, the design of the house was inspiredby Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "The Black Ai-row. " The house wasbuilt for Frank Turnbull of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, owner of RogercPeet Company, a New York clothing store. -

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NC 205 Sea Haven ca 196S : A 2-story, gable-roof split-level dwelling withdeep overhanging eaves, a shed portico over the entrance, and a

- second-story balcony deck. -

206 Sunshine Garage and Chauffeur ‘5 Residence ea rly 20th century : Al½r story, bel lcurve gambrel -roof hui lding with garage hays on thefirst story, long shed dormers, and a second-story balcony a lateraddition . Modern plate-glass sliding doors have been installed onthe first story in place of the original door to the second floor.Built as a garage and chauffeur’s quarters fo± Sunshine see number238 , it is now a priVate residence.

207 Louisiana 1902: A modern Colonial dwelling with a massive flank-- gambrel roof encompassing its second story and attic. It is set on

a- lot at the corner of Sequan Road and oriented with its end toward

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Watch Hill Poad. The rear elevation, facing Sequan Road, is morereadily visible than the house’s facade. It has a shallow, end-gambrel dl at one end anda broad, hip-roof dormer unit at theother end that rises two full stories above the first floor of themain block. This tower-like mass contains - an off-center, archedstaircase window balanced- by a picturesque-array of asymmetricallyplaced rectangular windows of varied size. The facade northerlyside has a recessed veranda sheltering a centi-al entrance. Thehouse was built for a Miss Carras and was, for a number of years thesummer residence of the Detrick sisters of Baltimore, daughters ofJacob Stoil Detrick, a mechanical engineer and inventor who waspresident of the Detrick 1-larvey Machine Company.

208 Merrivale 1903 : A Modern Colonial dwelling with a massive flankgambrel roof containing its second story and attic. It is oriented

- end to the street on a lot at the corner of Popon Road. The endfronting on Watch lilt’ Road contains a recessed Tuscan-column porchenclosed with screens . On the flank facing Popon Road there isa small 1-story projection and a long shed dormer with a small hip-roof central unit that rises to a full 3-story height. Some of thewindows have been repl acedi w th modern sash

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209 York House ca 1845 with additions ca 1895 : A 2½-story, end-gahlI -

roof, side-hall-plan Greek Revival dwelling with a 3-story, octagonalpyramidal -roof corner tower added in the late 19th cehtury and amodern 1-story, flat-roof side addition with a picture window. Al 1of the original windows have been replaced wi tli modern casement sash.The house was owned by J .C - York in the late 19th century.

210 Fairview l870s : A 1½-story, mansard-roof; s.ide-hall-plan cottagewith a front veranda, an off-center front gambrel, a- side gambrelproiectng over a sidle hay window, and shed-hooded dormers in theiim;insa rd - ‘l’he gainbre I s a m’c t m i mined wit-h ha rgeho;m rds conta I im i rig cut’ -

out Im ea r t and cross slm apes - For many yea ‘s tim is was tli e res i deuceof Postmaster W.N. York.

211 Hunt Cottage, later Greycote ca 1850 : A 2½-story, flank-gabler’oo.f dwe l iii ng w i th a cent NI I. ent rance , a front veranda , a ccii t ra Iend-gable pro7ection containing a bay window over the veranda, gableddormers , overhanging eaves trimmed with hargehoards , and a 1½-storyrear dl - The exterior is covered with a combination of vertical-hoard and clapboard siding. Originally built for Dr. Hunt, thehouse was altered for Dudley Phelps in 1902. -

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212 Bóuldercrest ca 1890: A 2½-story vernacular Queen Anne dwellingwith a 3-story, octagonal, conical-roof corner tower set in the anglebetween the house’s end-gabled main block and a gabled side projection. A wraparound veranda has a diagonal end-gabled unit projectingat the base of the tower. There is a 2-story rear addition coveredby a low-pitch hip roof. A tal 1 1½-story, gable-roof cottage withj igsawn hargeboard trim stands on the property and was probablyoriginally an outbuilding. The house was built for the ReverendWilliam A. Snively of Louisville, Kentucky, a prominent Episcopalclergyman and writer on religions topics. -

213 Stonyhurst ca 1897: A 2½-story, cross-gable-roof, cross-plandwelling with a wraparound veranda now partly enclosed , a front-gable overhang, and shed dormers. 1t was built for Cincinnatibusinessman Hines Strobridge.

214 Wetumanetu 1899; 1-lenry W. Wilkinson of Syracuse archi tect : A 2½-story, hip-roof, cubical -mass Shi ngle Style house wi tb a ruhhl c-stone

- first story and a shingle-clad second story. It has a recessed, U--shaped veranda now partly enclosed, a central entrance, a slightprojection in the center of the second story that conta ins a rccescdbalcony, andl eyebrow dormers - The house was huil t for Dr - JohnChamplin of Westerly. Its Indian name means "Medicine Man’s house

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215 Russula, now Tredegar 1900; Chapman L Fraser of Boston, architectsA Modern Colonial dwelling with a massive flank-gambrel roof containing its second story and attic. ft is set end to the street with itsfront gambrel end proj ecting over paireddormers in the flanks of the gambrel. Thproperty by Maxson Company of Westerlyoccupied at one time by Frederick Brooksdent of Brooks Brothers see number 155 -

216 Red ‘lop 1900; Chapman Fraser of Boston, architects:metrical Modern Colonial dwelling with a complex roof. Oneof the house has a massive gambrel roof containing the secoand attic, with a shed dormer along one side that continuespart of a gable roof covering an oil . The house has asymmofenestration, including an oriel window; a massive exterioron one flank; and a hip- roof dormer. It was built by Maxsonof Westerly as a rental -property for Dr. Merrill. The houseoccupied by Miss H.C. Prick of Pittsburgh and later by Truman H.Newberry of Grosse Pointe Farms , Michigan, a prominent Detroit

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217 House ca 1900: A long, blocky Modern Comassive flark-gamhrei roof containing itslt has an off-center entrance, a Tuscan-cshed dormers . It is covered partly withwith shingles.

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dwelling with astory and attic.trance porch, andsiding and partly

218 Albert Crandall louse, later Cat] in House 1843 : A 2½-story, flank-gable-roof, 19th-century-vernacular dwelling with a 5-bay facade,a central entrance, a front veranda and a front bay window bothlater additions, a rear eli, gable returns, and hip-roof dormers -

It is now covered with aluminum siding. The house was built forAlbert Crandall, son-in-law of former lighthouse keeper and innkeeperJonathan Nash. Crandall later sold the property to Governor JuliusCatlin, one of the early summer visitors at Watch Hill. The housewas turned on site to its present orientation in 1913.

219 The Snuggo ry ca 1890 , remodeled 1899 : A 2½- story’, I-plan, gable -

roof dwell ing with a wraparound veranda, partly recessed tinder thefrontal wing, and shied dormers . A modern picture window has beeninstalled in the front gable. The house was built as a rental property for Westerly aerchant George N. Burdick -

220 District 11 Schoolhouse 185clapboard 19th- century veranentrance - Used as the Watchhuildliiig housed a retail shopr es i d encc

small 1-story, end-gable-roof,structure with an off-centerdistrict school until 1901, this

1917 to the 1940s and is now a

NC 221 Sea Shell ca l940s : A 1½-story, flank-gable-roof, center-entrance,Calie Cod- type dwelling.

222 Baltimore Cottage, later Wawai.oam ca 1887 with alterations ca 1902:A well designed 2½-story, asymmetrical Queen Anne/Modern Colonialdwell,ing , now covered with aluminum siding. The original section ofthe house, covered by a saltbox roof, has an off-center entrance ina shallow proj ection encompased within a semi-octagonal, semi -conical-roof entrance porch - Above, paired gable-roof dormers flank a broadend-gable central dormer that breaks up through the eaves to a full3-story height. In the rear, the extended roof sloie covers a recessed veranda that extends beyond one end of the house. A long, shed-roof rear dormer is topped wi thi a gable; above this is a single off-

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center, hip-roof attic dormer. Later additions include a shorter2½-story, flank-gable side wing and an enclosed, i-story polygonalpavilion on one end of the rear veranda. The side addition proj ectsforward slightly from the main block and contains a subsidiary frontentrance sheltered by a gable-roof, latt icework portico. Old photographs reveal that the house has been slightly changed by alterationsthat have elimina ted some dluasi -medieval Queen Anne elements to gi yethe building a more straightforward Colonial character - ‘Ihe housewas built for Miss U. Adams of Baltimore, who sold it in 1902 toManton B. Metcalf of Orange, New Jersey, a son of Jesse-Metcalf,owner of the Wanskuck Mills in Providence - Metcalf probably commissioned the alterations to the house and renamed it ¶Vawaloam aftera famous Narragansett squaw sachem.

224 Foster Farmhouse; Inglec’ote ca 1733, remodeled ca 1880 and ca 1890- A 1½-story, flank-gable-roof, center-entrance Colonial dwelling

altered into a "Swiss Chalet" in the late 19th century. The Tictorianalterations include a new gable roof, with a helicurve flare on thefront slope and deep overhanging eaves; a wraparound veranda partlyscreened in recessed under the flaring slope; a stickwork balcony

with stick supports and liracework in one gahle end; a large centralfront gahi e cont.a in i ng a hay window; and gahI ed do tine rs w i thi s ti.c k --

work in the peaks. ‘‘lie original part of the house was huift for theFoster family, one of the first to settI eat Watch Hill . The housewas later the center of the prope rty known as the Everett Farm, andwas remodeled into its present form about the t ime the farm was sub -

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225 The Wigwam, Rosemont, now Redlac ca 1890, altered 1900: A1½-story structure comprising an M-gahle-roof main block withsidiary shed- and hip-roof appendages. The roof mass overhang

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22.3 The IVickiup ca 1890 with later additions : An astory, hip-roof dwelling with a gabled side pavi]veranda surmounted by a halustraded balcony, onevariety of doraiers , including hipped and eyebrowside dormer with gabled end units linked by a flaThe gable of the side pavilion contains an archedemhrasure with curving, shingled ediges. ‘‘here isgable-roof addition on the side opposite the sideto the ma in block by a 1- story hyphen. The houseMrs - Clara H. Stanton and was later the house ofof Sewickley, Pennsylvania, - president of the SafeCompany of Pittsburgh.

symmetrical, 2½-ion, a wraparoundI windows , and adormers and a longt - roof section.wndow set in ana modern 2-story,pavil ion, I inkedhwas built for

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first story and is supported by large curved struts. There areshingled bows in the front gable peaks, and a tall, stone chimneyrising above the roof. The building was built as a stable for ClaraStanton’s house, The Wickiup, and was converted into a residence in190 0 . -

226 The Tepee, now Montrose 1899; attributed to John A. Tompkins ofNew York, architect The main block of this Shingle Style dwelling,turned end to the street, has a massive, overhanging flank-gableroof encompassing its second story and attic. The roof mass isinterrupted by a ta -1, end - gable, central front dormer flanked oneach side by smal 1cr gabled dormers. An entrance porch is recessedinto the first story and an exterior chimney on the street end

up through the gable overhang - Atalong the street front, there is alight second-storyt

overhang and a‘h’he e.x erior ‘a1 is arewas built h-v the R.A.

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228 The Bungalow 1899; attrihuted to John A. Tompkins of New York,arcili tect : A sprawling, picturesque, stone and shingle dwellingdominated by a massive, symmetrical hut complex roof mass encompassingits second story and attic. The roof is a modified "M" gable withextended side slopes, a fiank-gahle connecting hyphen in the valley

- ‘of the "M," and hip extensions across the gable ends forming pentroofs over the first - and second-story doors and windows . The twinfront gables contain paired second-story dri elswith shingled -bows

p i crc e 5rwin ingwith a sthroughsiding.property

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227 Spencecli Ef, now house-on-Hi hi 1912: Acomplexly massed stone and shingle Shinglestone-wal led terrace atop a hill. ‘h’he main hflank-gable- roof mass with a recessed, a rcadedporch at one end of the facade. This porch issemi-circular, semi-conical roof stone stairhabacked by a 2½-story, end-gable pavil ion thatroof and the tower. A gable-roof, stone-postthe other end of the facade and a 1-story, fltopped addition extends from the main block hedetailing includes -two stone exterior chimneysone on the front flanking the tower; an onielgable end; and Ii pped , shed , andi eyebrow dormerhti It for Jacob S. Burnet, one of three Cincinnthe suhdivi sion and development of the Everett

ock is a 1½-story,ruhhlestone entranceflanked by a 2-story

11 tower which isrises above the mainporch proj ects - fromat-roof, balustradeyond this porch. Other

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229 Chenowith , later the Ledges, now Marhellof New York, a rch itects : A low, rambliwith an overhanging, comp lex roof composhead forms with hipped extensions acrossrear corner there is an enclosed, octagonpyramidal roof. A modern bow window hasof themain block. The house was hui Ita rental property for Clara H. Stanton,Mrs - Robert Allyn of Hartford.

a 1914; Atterhu rv ‘h’ompk insng , 1½-story, L -p1 an dwellinged of intersect iiig jerkintheir gable ends. At oneal pay i,lion topped by abeen installed in the facade

by R .A . Sherman Company asand was first occupied by

230 hill side ca 1890 with later addi t ions : An asymmetrical 2½- storyend-gable-roof, Queen Anne vernacular dwelling with a gable-on-hip-roof side pavilion. The front angle between the main block and sidepavilion isfi I lcd] by a second - sto r’ proj ect. on Over an ent rarico porchthat extends forward beyond the facade of the house. The hack por

- tion of this porch, under the second-story projection, is now enclosed. A curved bay windlow - on the side pavil ion is set under asecond-story overhang. The house is set on a sloping site with thehasement above gradle on the pavilion sidle. There is a Tuscan-columnbasement porch on this side, supporting a-first-floor adhdLntloni thfttfills- the rear angle between the main block arid sidhe pav:iilion. ‘[hehouse was built for William P. Anderson, a member of the Cincinnati.syndicate that subdivided the Everett Farm, and was first occupiedby members o.f his family, Charles and Vachel SV. Anderson.

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2.32 Highland Lodge, now Merarnour 1898; Gardner, Pync Gardner ofSpringfield, Massachusetts, architect : A Modern Colonial dwellingwith a massive flank - gambrel roof encompassing its second story andattic, a 2-story side hay window, and a slightly shorter gambrel-roof rear dl A front veranda that extends past the ends of thehouse supports a pa ir of polygonal second - story hay windows fI ank,i nga large, rectangular, flat-roof central hay topped by a roof balustrade . This central hay is surmounted by an attic-level frontcamhrcl containing a recessed balcony. ‘h’he house was bin ii t for

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iii the gable peaks ahove - The roof has a front eyebrow dormer andside dormers with paired gable-roof units connected by central shied-roof sections. ‘l’he first story contains recessed porches now partlyglazed and a recessed central entranceway . The house was built byR.A. Sherman-Company as a rental property for Clara H - ,Stanton, andwas first occupied hy John b3ushnietl. of Plainfiel.d , New Jerse.

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Will iam H. Haile of Springfield, one-timeMassachusetts -

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234 Cedar Brae , nowdwelling with aporch, and deepSusan Keith of

the Chalet 1897’ : An end -gable central frooverhanging eaves. It

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low 2-story,nt pavilion,

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235 ivy Cottage 1850s?, remodeled ca 1895 An asymmetrical dwelling,clad partly in shingle and partly in aluminum siding, compri singtwo sections of different vintage. ‘[he original portion is a 2-story,gable- roof, mid-l9th-century vernacular cottage - Perpendicular tothis section is a larger 1½-story Modern Colonial-style additionwith a massive gable roof that sweeps down in a curve on one flank.The later section has a recessed porch under the curved flank thatextends across the narrow end. This section also has gabled dormersand an - oriel window in the end gable.

236 Collins House, hater Manham or Main Brace- ca 1850s A long, tall1½-story, cross-gable-rbo f, clapboard 19th-century vernacular dwell ingwith an off-center veranda across part of the facade and a glazed,recessed porch in one end of the huilding a later alteration

237 Building early 20th-centurypa i ni ted brick s t ruc tin re wi tir an

- i-ear’ sect ion. ‘[lie doOl’5 and wi[his building, now a res idenice,have heon built as some sort off

A small, 1-story,off-center entranc

ndows are set in sohas a ni i md S tr I a Ia intili ty service building.

238 Sunshilne Cottage 1898 with addi tions 1917-20; Chapman, Fraser’Bliven o.f Boston, architects for addhitions A rambling ModernColonial structure with massi ve.flank-gambrel roofs containing - itssecond story and attic. It comprises a symmetri cal central blockflanked by splayed side wings. Thie central block has a recessedcentral entrance under a proj ecting Tuscan-column, hip-roof porch;

233 Pendleton House ca 1840s: A 2½-story, end-gable-roeplan, clapboard Greek Revival dlwelli.ng with a pedimentgahilc containing a lunette window. ‘[he ma in entranceand a simple enframement of narrow hoards. There areadditions to the rear and modern alterationssash in p1 ace of original ut i.ndows , - The houseof the Pendleton family, one of the earliestWatch h-hill.

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flanking the entrance; a - central front gambrel withy; and hip- roof dermers at second-story and atticare asymmetrca I , with polygonal second-story baysroof of the central block has a deep front over

c.o lununs , which extends as a hiiphied pent roof onfacade of the side wings. The house was built forof Procter F1 Gamble and was sold in 1914 to Richard

Pittsburgh p-resident of the Mel lou National Bank and athe Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The Mel lens en

sioned the Olmsted Brothers firm to plan

NC 239 House 1980-81: A 2- to 3-story, gable-roof, vertical-hoard moderndwel 1 i ng with casement windows and a large re-ar deck,

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style cottage with a shed-roof clerestory rising above the gable roof,

242 Wildridge 1960s: A 1-story,- flank-gahle-roof, ranch-type tracthouse - -

NC - 243 Ihouso 1940s? with earlier section? : A small 1- story, gable - roofcottage, nearly hidden from view by shrubbery, with a massive stonechimney and an extensive perch glazed with jalousie windows, it mayincorporate part of an early 20th-century outbuilding once affiliatedwith Ridge End number 244 ; if so, it has been greatly altered.

244 Ridge End 1907 with 1910 addition : A plain 2½-story, gable-roofdwelling comprising two wings arranged at an obtuse angle. it hasasymmetrical fenestration, three I-story columned porches, a 2-storybay window, and hip-roof dormers .-The house is set on a hillsidewith a rubblestone basement a story above grade on the interior-angle-side. The house was occupied at one time by the A. L. Dickinsons ofNew York and later by James- C. Farrell of Albany.

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twin hay windowsa recessed halconlevel - The wingsand dormers. TImehang, supported bycolumns across threWilliam A. ProcterB. Mel Ion ofdiredtor of

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245 Ciarmar, also White House ca 1900 with later alterations; WarringtonG. Laurence of Detroit, architect : An imposing 2½-story, hip-roof,

- high-style Colonial Revival dwelling trimnned with pilasters and modillion cornices. its front veranda now glazed with porte-cochereextension is topped by a Chinese Chippendale roof balustrade al teredfrom its original form with balusters and has a central, curved,Tuscan-column proj ection in front of a shallow central entrancepavi lien. ihe entrance pavilion is topped by a pediment contain ingan ocul us. This pediment is flanked on each side hy a pedmmenteddo rifler containing an arched window - Pa ired exte ri or end chimneysconstructed of rubhlestone are the only features that do not conformwith the sophisticated nco-classical design of the building, whichnow has extensive rear additions. The house was built for William GClark of Newark and later became the property of Chauncey G. Parker,a prominent attorney who practiced in Newark and Washington, D.C.

246 Ibeuse early 20th century: An asymnnetrical , 1½-story, cross-gabteroof stone and shingle cottage with a glass greenhouse wing. It wasprobably built as the gardner’s cottage for Clarmar see number 243 -

NC 247 I-house early 20th century with later alterations: A low 1-story,hip- roof, stucco dwelling with a garage incorporated into its mass.It resembles a mid-2Oth-century ranch-type tract house hut wasprobably built as a garage and chauffeur’s cottage for one of thelarge houses nearby. It is now a private residence -

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- - 1600-1699 architecture education military x social;X 1700-1799 art engineering - music humanitarianX - 1800-1899 - - commerce exploration-settlement philosophy - - theater

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Watch Hill is significant as a well preserved example of a late nineteenth- and early - twentieth -century summer resort, reflecting the popula ri -

zation of vacations during that period as an-aspect of modern urban industrial life. The village is a manifestation of modes of socializationand concepts of leisure, recreation, and even health care that evolved inthe Victorian era - The buildings in the Watch Hill Historic District dt’cument the area’s transformation from an agrarian community to a summer resort. They are notable for- their degree of visual unity and compatibilityand their skillful integration into the landscape. Certain sections of thevillage, laid out in the picturesque, fluid manner first adopted for thedesign of rural cemeteries and suburbs, stand as a good example of one type

- of nineteenth-century community planning. Watch Hill joins Newport andNarragansett as the three chief exemplars in Rhode island of the summer -

resort movement. Narragansett, though larger than Watch liii I, is less intact, with much of its historical fabric destroyed hy fires, storms, andurban renewal. Among Rhode Island summer resorts today, Watch Hill issecond only to Newport in its environmental character and the. ar chi tectinralqual ity of its constituent buildings.

The strategic importance of the Watch Hill region was recognized I :oman early date. The Niantic indians reputedly used the area as a lookoutin the early seventeenth century, to watch for attack parties of Montanip’Indjans - In the 1740s a watch post was established on the highest knollhere by the colony of Rhode Tsland during King George’s War. These activities are memorialized today in the name of the community.

The first European settlement at Watch Hill came in the i660s, whenpresent-day Washington County, Rhode Island, was known as the King’s Province -

a territory claimed by Rhode ls-land, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. lii1662 the Massachusetts Bay Colony granted 500 acres on the easterly sideof the Pequot Pawcatuck River to Captain Daniel Gooki.n , encompassing theWatch Hill peninsula. Captain Gookin erected a dwelling on the property fora tenant -farmer. Through the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, theproperty changed hands and was eventually subdivided. For the nest part,however, it remained in large tracts owned by only a few families - Amongthe early landholders were the Hannah and the Pendleton families. By thelate eighteenth century, the area southwesterly of the Syndicate Line seedistrict map and definition below had been divided into twelve lots, consol idated in the possession of the Poster and Willcox families. Two eighteenth-century censuses list three heads of households residing at WatchHill: Jonathan Foster, Jonathan Foster, Jr., and Hezekiah Willcox in 1774;


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and George Foster, Hezekiah Willcox, and Peleg Willcox in 1790. iri additionto the residences of these men there were other houses on the various parcels,hut the total number of dwellings was probably no more than six -or seven.

- In 1793 the customs collector of the Port of Pawcatuck first approachedthe U. S. bepartment of the - Treasury concerning the estahl ishment of a lighthouse, preferably- at Watch Hill. The federal government purchased WatchIIil 1 Point from George Poster in 1806 and erected a lighthouse on the sitetwo years later. Jonathan Nash was appointed the first keeper of the light.Watch liii I became an important post in a growing network of Ii gift stationsintended to promote safe navigation and maritime transport along the coast.The original lighthouse was replaced by the present structure in 1856 anda life-saving stationwas added in 1879 supplanted by a newer -buildingin1907-08; both now demolished, the -latter in recognition of Watch Hill’s keyposition. -

The impetus for more intensive development of the Watch Hill peninsulacame from the advent and growth of tourism in the nineteenth century. Thepractice of vacationing was a consequence of industrial ization and urban i zation and the changes they wrought in American society. The stress and hecticpace of modern life in congested, dirty, and noisy-manufacturing citiesprompted a desire on the part of people to escape to more congenial surroundings for relaxation and recreation, which contributed to the evolution ofresorts as places offering a respite from quotidian existence. During thisperiod, a break from daily routine was seen not merely as advisahle hutimperative to the maintenance of physical and mental well being. In thewords of a Watch Hill promoti onal pamphlet, published in 1887:

Thy do we all want to leave our comfortahie homes in summer,and what kind of change do we want? it is hardly necessaryto answer the first question, so universal is the desire for -

such a change. The busy man needs rest from the overtaxingcares and worry of the active and often anxious commercialdemands on his physical powers during the busy season; the -

- wife and mother rd ief from the cares of housekeeping, andthe enervating duties of her position in society; the clii Idren,weaned of their books, need recuperation for their tiredbra ins, so overtaxed by the stuffing and cramming of our modern

- schools, and need a fresh supply of oxygen to put red blood in -

their veins, a Iiea I thy coLor i nto the I r cheeks , and a measureof vigor into their muscles. What is wanted is freedom fromcare, a complete rest, a cool, bracing atmosphere, change ofscene, and opportunities for healthful recreation.

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ironically, it was the burgeoning industrial economy itselFa class of- individuals with the financial resources and leisget away from the perceived detrimental aspects of the new sorder. - - -

Development of the sunnmer colon’ at Watchconiininon to nnnany Ainnerican resorts. Larly vis.i toron the area’s picturesque setting and bJleasarlt climate, weretent with hoarding- house and hotel accommodations and socialcentered on outdoor recreation and hotel functions, in time,desired more privacy and comfort than the hotels offered huilvacation houses. Seasonal dwellings were aiso built hy realvestors who -rented to families that wanted the advantages ofresidence hut did not want to or could not a fford to incur thmaintaining their own cottage. As the conñmunity becamennoreadditional facilities and institutions were created, many ofcated features of life hack home which the - sojourners were ostrying to leave behind them.

Jonathan Nash apparently saw the potential for developcular seaside landscape at Watch Hill , for Tie began to

- By 1920 his holdings extended across the neck fronni hi tttethe ocean, bordered on the north and south by Lands of

The tourist industry had its inception in the 1830s when Jonathanto take boarders in his -house. About 1835 he reti red as lightbuilt the first hotel, the Watch Hill House. This was followedtruction of the Narragansett House in 1844, the Atlantic Housethe Plympton House in 1865, the Ocean House and Larkini I-housethe Bay-View House about 1870.

Tourists were attracted to Watch h-Till primarily from the west andcame from Philadelphia,- Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati, and others

ton, D.C. , Baltimore, -Hartford, Connecticut, and Springfield,5 . Pew canne from Providence or Bos ton - - the latter with fashion -

in closer prox imity on the North Shore of Massachusetts Bay.traveled by rail, detraining at Stonington , Connecticut, tojourney by -steanner across Little Narragansett Bay, a three

ich was easier than the six-mile ride overland from the stat ioncell t e r.

early evolution of the community is documented in the 1870 BeersRhode island. From the old winding road leading from Westerly

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Light Keeperment of the spectaacquire property.Narragansett Bay toGeorge Poster.

Nash begankeeper andby the consin 18S5-56,in 1868, and

north. Mostfrom WashingMassac h u e t table resortsTine visitorscomplete tJnemile trip what WesterL

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and Bluff Avenue, two cross streets Plympton andstreet along the bay shore Bay Street . The mapdwellings, including one used as a hoarding house,a school house built 1852 . - The houses were allresidents. Four decades after its beginning as awas still a hotel resort, with no seasonal summer

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The first dwelling designed and- huilt specifically as a summer residence was put up for Connecticut Governor James L. Howard of I-hartford, onland west of the Watch Hill House. Some of the exiswere subsequently-purchased for use as summer homesHouse, bought by Mrs. 3. P. Harvey now partly destroAlbert W. Crandall’s house, occupied hy Governor Julseasonal cottages were built. - Extensive developmentby the lack of available building sites. Most landheld by the hotel owners, who were reluctant to sellconstruction of houses that would block their sea vi

This estate, which has so longWatch Hill,.. .has recently beenpurpose of division into cottagsituation, and prices to suit avery moJrate means -and econonnnithe.. .ocean air and scenery attile n..realthy

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ti ng year-round houses-such as the Pitchyed hy fire, andius Catl in- -and a Few

however, was hamperedin the village waslots to enable the

stas . Immediatelynortheast of the vil lage , a section of the former George Foster homesteadsince sold out of the family and known as the Everett Farm, ran acrossthe neck from the hay to the ocean, blocking the natural expansion of thevillage up the neck.

in 1886 three Cincinnati businessmen, Lyneas Norton, Jacob S.and Walter St. John Jones, joined together to purchase the EverettThese gentlemen, commonly known as the Cincinnati Syndi ca-te , hiredBurke, a land- surveyor from their Ohio home town, to suhdivide theestate into house lots. The plan that Burke drew included 101 lotsfrom 4891 to 160,000 square feet, disposed along winding streets arto harmonize with and capi talize upon the rolling terrain. In theof a promotional text published by the syndicate:

line average lot- s ze ml- tile Nverett Farnn snmhd35,000 square. feet, just under one acre. A numberadjoining lots to ensure adequate space for their reight of the lots were sold in the first six monthsthe farm, but construction followed slowly.erected on the Everett tract by 1895, not al

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less than half built up at the turn ofthe century, other opportunities for building cottages were opened as well.in 1896 William A. Procter and William P. Anderson of Cincinnati acquiredthe Potter Farm, northeasterly of the--Syndicate Line the northeasterlyborder of the Everett Farm on the northerly side of Westerly Road. Theold Potter farmhouse was converted into a guest house, subsequently knownas the Misquamicut Inn, arid the acreage was divided into house lots. Sometime later Stanton S. Pendleton subdivided his property, across WesterlyRoad ns the new streets were laid outalong Everett Farm development. -

As the seasonal population of Watch Hill swelledand services were created that catered to the summergeneral, institutions that met the needs of both hotewere founded earlier, such as the chapelgrew, organizations arose that we-re morelife, such as the country club and yacht club.

The Watch Hill Chapel Society was incorporated in 1875nent summer - residents. The foLlowing year- George M. Nash,the Ocean House, gave the society a lot across the street fA chapel building designed by George Keller of Hartford wasthe site i.n 1887-. It was a union chapel which houses interdProtestant- services conducted by visiting clergymen, as wellmasses and separate services foi black servants. The Modernedifice was enlarged in 1902 following the original style ofand was completely refurbished into a neo-Colonial structurechapel remains an important center of community life today.

andA commercial district evolved along Bay

specialty shops, restaurants and lunch roStreet.outs, and

It included dry-goodsprovisions stores

that supplied the cottage colony. in 1879 a traveling carnival eft behinda -flying-horse carodsel which became a fixture at the end of Bay Street,an isolated incident that provided the village- with what is perhaps itsbest known landmark. The communi. ty was substantia I enough to ‘a rrantestablnshnnent of a post of ice here in 1883. A trolley line, the PawcatuckValley Street Railway, was completed in 1894, linking Watch Hill to Westerlycenter. This :mptovement was apparently promoted to Westerly businessmenwho sought to draw customers froth the are-n. Many Watch I-fill residentsconsidered the trolley a nuisance that obstructed carriage--and laterauto--traffic on the Westerly Road. They also feared that steamer servicefrom Stonington would he discontinued, forcing them to make less convenienttrain connections through Westerly station via the trolley. The streetrailway operated summers until 1921, when it was discontinued.


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from the Potter Pa run. In both sectiocurvilinear paths that continued the

various facilitiesinhabitants. in1 visitors and cottagers

society. As the number of cottagersclosely related to their way of

by forty promiproprietor ofrom his hotel.completed on -

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The Watch Hill Improvement Society was founded by a group of gentlemen in 1888 and incorporated a year later. Its stated aims were ". . .todevelop and improve the village of Watch Hill, cultivate pub] ic spirit,quicken the social and intellectual life of the people, securepubLichealth, beautify and build up the village, and render Watch Hill a stillmore inviting and desirable place of residence.’’ The prov:i sion of programs-for intellectual and* cultural enrichment went along with the Victoriannotion that leisure time should he spent in educational as well as recrea -

tional pursuits. However, as the number of cottages grew, the emphasis ofthe society shifted to issues of civic betterment and beautification. By1900 control of the Improvement Society has passed to the women of the community. The village’ s public sculptures and monuments were placed underthe auspices of the group.

The Misquamicut Golf Club was founClub in 1913 to provide recreational anlaid out a nine-hole course in 1896 onwith a clubhouse converted from ansubsequently acqui red a large tracthack of the former Pendleton farm.house was constructed in 1901 . ‘I’hthe c tnh bui Id i ng has been ciii a rgepiings in Watch Hill. Cove in 1922hurri cane of 1938 and replaced thetoday as centers of Watch Hill soc

The growth of Watchcertain basic municipal.was incorporated; Thison property owners, prot’and maintenance of a sysworks, - which eliminatedmill pumps-. The Fire Distands off Bay StreetRoad outside the district,hi re listri ct organizationmanagement of the vi 1] age’s

was erected asfunctions as acivic affairs.

ded in 1895 and the Watchd social activities. Thethe south side of Ocean Vicorn crib on the property.the OO5 te side of the highway,

va s bull t and a c I.ui -

heen redesigned anderected a ni I I ci Hg on

was dest io y ed by t. incBoth clubs survive

ihe shabby condtton of tine waterfront along Bay Street in the earlyyears of this century prompted the formation in 1908-10 of a Park Commission that developed as an offshoot of the Fire -District. The ParkCommission was authorized by the Rhode island General Assembly to acquireand demolish unsightly structures to create a shorel-ine park that was landscaped and ornamented with public sculptures. -

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Iii 11 Yacintgolf clubew -Ii. ghway

The ci ubol donHere a -new course

e course has sinceci. The Yacht TI ub

This structurefollowing year.

ial life.

lull ultimately called for the provision ofservices. In 1901 the Watch I-li 11 Fire Districtorganization, funded h’ a special assessment leviedided fire protection and later oversaw constructiontern of piped water connected to the Westerly waterthe village’s rel iance on private wells with wind-strict built an engine house, in 1910 that still

see entry 33. The present station, on Westerlya replacement-- in 1952. Thesort of local ‘‘town council’’ for

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IV aof thesl i_pp e dcolony. The P1the latter to cafter, a seriesfabric of the aColonial formeHouse, and twostructures in thurricane of 21of the Watch Hilleight other -housesand high seas thatBeach. After thebeach associationwere huilt on Napaan outcome of this

ander hour

g Eastmd tinehousespoint i.

Although a number of new buildings have been constructed here in thepast forty-five years, Watch Hill remains primarily a product of--its development as a resort during the years from 1870 through 1940. ‘the housesin the district ‘exemplify American domestic architecture of the late n ftcteenth and early twentieth century. They i llustiate the use of eclectic ismto create a form of arclnitectnral expression based on an inventive synthesisof elements adapted from historical sources. They reflect the evolutionfrom the more idiosyncratic compositions .of the 1$80s, which often combinedfeatures from different styles, to the more academic designs for periodhouses in the 1910s and 1920s. Most dwellings from the earlier ye-ars arein a i-tytlrld style coiinbinng characteristics of the Queen Anne with thoseof the. Modern Colonial or Shingle Sty-Ic, often with asymmetrical, artfullypicturesque massing influenced by European medieval design. The academicismthat dominated architectural practice after 1910 brought a change to morestudied dwellings in style such as the Colonial Revival, Englishlucto r Rev I t’a I , and Norman Pa i-mhous e . St i ii , ma nv houses o C the I1920s to I towed a hasic Co rmn;n t den ved from tine Co 111 Ia I Rev i va I wtouches such as deep overhanging eaves witin extended-rafter stickThis country-house architecture for tile well-toof good taste and served as a, model for tine desres I dences . -

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heyday lasted from the 1880s through the early decadesBy the end of this period the hotels had

the community had become primarily a cottageympton House and Larkin House were both demoli shed in 1906,lear the way for an end ave of new summer houses . ‘thereof disasters had a significant impact on the plnys ical

rca. A fire in Octoher 1916 destroyed the Watch lii ii andrly the Atlantic Houses, -the upper floors of the Co iurnhi adwellings. Another fire in February 1938 consumed eighthe village. The worst damage by far was wrought by the

September 1938. Thirty-nine cottages and five huil dingsBeacln Association were swept off Napatree Point,were damaged by winds gusting up to 200 miles pflooded buildings atop forty-foot bluffs alon

hutricane most homes and shops were repaired aand yacht club buildings were replaced, hut notree, and the present undeveloped state of thedevastating storm.

-do represented theign of- middle-ciass

Cottage,9 I Is and

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The houses at Watch HiLl are also notable is a collection of butldingsby archi tects fromcustom in, -resort

all over thecommunities of

Uni tedseasonal

States,residents

a consequence ofbringing in

the commonoutside

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architects for commissions, usually but not always-from the patrons’ inometowns. Among the architects who worked at Watch lull were people dis -

tinguished in their own localities and those of national reputation, together with some whose backgrounds cannot he readily traced. The. listincludes William John Cherry of New York; Gardner, Pyne Gardner ofSpringfield, Massachusetts; F. F. Gilbert of New York; Edward I. Hinkie ofPhiladelphia; Warrington C. Lawrence; Henry IV. Wilkinson of Syracuse, NewYork; Greenleaf { Cohh of Boston; George Keller, one of tine Foremost anciltects of Hartford, Connecticut; Tracey Magonigle of New York; Mott B.Schmidt, a New York society archi tect well known in the l9lOs and I 920stVil Ii a.m Ralph Emerson of Boston ; Grosvenor Atterhury and John A. Tonnpk insof New York; Wilson Eyre of Philadelphia; and john Russell Pope.

Though the custom of seasonal migration that spawned Watch 11111’s development haschanged since the turn of the century, tine area survives todayas a inni xed neghborhooc1 o.f year - round i nilahi tants wi tin a cons i dc rahl e numberof summer residents from greater New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, andWashington, i.C. Watch Hill is a remarkably well preserved historical community notable for its architectural and environmental quality and itsevocation of an important phase in American social history.

9.. Major Bibliographical ReferencesCole, J . ii. , History 0 F Washington and Keht Counties , H. 1 . New York 1 899

PP. 265-27Z, 341-342, 3S0-351, 362-363. -

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iO. Geographical DataAcreage of nominated property .c* ,f29 çres -

Quadrangle name JiYilS,±L NY - RI and Quadrangle scale i24,ft0,O..___.

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Verbal boundary description and justification

Beginning at the northern corner of the district, at the intersect ionof the shore of Little Narragansett Bay and the eastern lot line of lot 15,

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List all states and counties for properties overlapping state or county boundaries

state code - county code

state code county code

11. Form Prepared Bynametitle Robert O Jones, Jr.; Senior Historic Preservation Planner

organization R. I.- Historical Preservation Comm. date - -

street&number 150 Benefit Street telephone 401-277-2678

city or town Providence -- -__state Rhode Island 02903

12. State Historic Preservation Officer CertificationThe evaluated significance of this property within the state is:

- national - state local - -

As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 Public Law 89-665. I hereby nominate this property for inclusiôp in the National Hegister and certify that it has been evaluatedaccording to the criteria and procedures set tort, by t1e Fional Park Service.

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-Hoag, Wade Company, History of the State of Rhode Island Philadelphia:1878 PP. 337. -

The Hurricane--September 21, 1938--Westerly, Rhode Island and VicinityWesterly: 1938

Peck, Reginald F. , Early Landholders of Watch lull Westerly: 1936

Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission, Historic and Architectural- Resources of_Westerly, R.i. - -A Preliminary Report Providence: 1.978j5. 6, lTT9, 31-33.

Seaside Topics Watch Hill, R. I . , various issues, 1913-1975.

‘‘Sixtieth Anniversary of the Watch Hill Union Chapel 1875-1935,’’hx’sterly 1935

Watch Hill Life Watch Hill, It. I., various issues, 1898-1900.

Watch liii 1, Rhode lsland, and It’s Attractions as a Summer ResortC mci nnati : 1878

Westerly Sun, 26 June 1894.

Who Was Who in America 6 vol 5.,. Chicago: 1963-1976

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Way; thenceto the south

3 to the northerly curb ofthe nqrtherly curb of Oceaneasterly lot line of lot 23along the northeasterly lotSound; thence southwesterlyBlock Island Sound to the t

- and generaily northeasterlysett Bay to the point ofassessors’ plat 172.

1’ culot 40;corner;and 42

thencelot 11curb ofRoad tond 1 t

I of Pautipaug Waythence northwesterlythence northeasterlyo the point of inter-following in a clock-to its polnt of inter-

Browning Road; thencea point opposite the8 assessors’ pInt

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assessors’ plat 17?; thence southerly along the eastern lot line of’ saidlot 15 to the northerly curb of Misquamicut Road; thence along the northerlycurb of Misquamicut Road to a point opposite the easterly lot line of lot22; thence straight across Misquamicut Road, continuing along the easterlyline of lot 22 and straight across Popon Road to the southerly curb ofPopon Road; thence easterly along the southern curb of Popon Road, con -

tinuing across a fork in the road to follow the southerly curb of thefork leading to Watch 11111 Road, to its intersection with the westerly curbof Watch Hill Road; thence southerly along the westerly curb of Watch HillRoad to the point of intersection with the southerly lot line of lot 35;thence across the intersection of Watch Hill and Ridge Roads to a point onthe southerly curb of Ridge Road along the northern side of lot 53A,assessors’ plat 179; thence easterly along the southern curb of Ridge Road,continuing around the cul-de-sac at the end of Ridge Road to the pointmark ing the southern end of the western lot line of lot 39, assessors

‘-p1 at

173; thence northerly and southeasterly, following the western and northeastern lot lines of said lot 39, to the northwesterly curb of Pautipaug

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northeasterly along the northwesterwestern lot line of a portion of

along the southwesterly line of lot 40, to aalong the northwesterly lot lines of lots 40section with the line between lots 19 and lit;hi se direction around the complex. boundary ofsection with the western end of the southerlyeasterly along the southerly curb of Browningboundary between lot 47, assessors’ plat 162 a174; thence across Browning Road, following in a clockwise directiob aroundthe boundary of lot 18, plat 174 -to its intersection with the northeasternlot line of lot 3; thence southeasterly along the northeasterly line of lot

0 1

Ocean View Highway; thence southeasterly alongView Highway to a point opposite the north-assessors’ plat 180; thence southeasterly

line of lot 23 to the shore of Block Isi andnorthwesterly, and northerly along the shore of

ip of Napatree Point; thence. southerly, caste-nyalong the irregular coastl Inc of Little Na rragan

be g inn In g at the eastern lot line of lot 15,

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of the Misquamicut Golf Club is included for the architectura.l qua] ity ofthe clubhouse, the scenic value of its landscaped grounds, and the important role of the club in the history of social life at Watch Hill.Napatree Point is included because it has historically been part of thecommunity, once built up with dwelling that were part of the village, andis a prominent land-form in the vistas of seascape and landscape here.These vistas are a constituent element of the unique visual character ofWatch Hill and are important to an understanding of the district’s history,for they were instrumental in encouraging the development of this area asa summer resort.

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twin bay windows flanking the entrance;a recessed balcony; and hip-roof dormerslevel. The wings are asymmetrical, withand dormers. The roof of the central blohang, supported by columns , which extends as acolumns across the facade of the side wings.William A. Procter of Procter Gamble and wasB. Mellon of Pittshurgh. president of the Helldi-redtor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Clevellarged the house and commissioned the Olmstedthe landscaping.

front gambrel withd-story and atticI second-story bays

deep front overh i pped pent roo I on

The house was built forsold in 1914 to Richard

on National Bank and aand. The Mellons en-Brothers firm to plan

NC 239 House 1980-81: A 2-dwelling with casement

to 3-story,windows and

gable-roof, vertical -hoard moderna large rear deck.

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NC 240 The Lodge 1910s? : A 1-stowith asbestos-shingle wall cranch house but was built asGraydon see number 157

NC 241 i-louse 1981:- style cottage

A 1½-story, flank-gable, vertical-board, Contemporary-with a shed- roof cterestory rising above the gable roof.

NC 242 Wildridge 1960s: A 1-story, flank-gable-roof, ranch-type tracthouse.

NC 243 house l940s?cottage, nearlchimney and anincorporate pawith Ridge End

with earlier section?: A smally hidden from view by shrubbery,extensive porch glazed with jab

rt of an early 20th-century outhunumber 244; if so, it has been

1-story, gable-with a massiveusie windows.ilding once agreatly altered.

2½ - st oobtuse

umned p0is setde onthe A.

ry, gable-roofangle. It hasrches, a 2-storyon a hillside

the interior-angleL. Dickinsons of

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a centralat seconp01 y go n ack has a

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ry, hip-roof, rectangtil ar-block structureover. It resembles a mid-20th-centu-ry

a chauffeur’s res idence and garage for

roofstoneIt may

f iii i.ated

244 Ridge End 1907 with 1910 addition : A plaindwelling comprising two wings arranged at anasymmetrical fenestration, three 1-story colbay window, and hip-roof dormers. The housewith a rubblestone basement a story above graside. The house was occupied at one time byNew York and later by James C. Farrell of Albany.


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245 .Clarmar, also White HouseG. Laurence of Detroit, arhigh-style Colonial Revivallion cornices. Its front vextens ion is topped by a Clifrom its original form withTuscan-column projection inpavilion. The entrance pavian oculus. This pediment is

246 House early 20throof stone and shprobably built as

ca 1900 with later alterations; Warringtonchitect: An imposing 2½-story, hip-roof,

dwelling trimmed with pibasters and rnodileranda now glazed with porte -cocherei nose Chippendale roof balustrade alteredbalusters and has a central, curved,front of a shallow central entrancelion is topped by a pediment containingflanked on each side by a pedimented

Paired exterior end chimneysonly features that do not conform

al design of the building, whichThe house was built for William G.

he property of Chauncey G. Parker,in Newark and Washington, D.C.

NC 247 House early 20th century with later alterations: A lowhip-roof, stucco dwelling with a garage incorporated intoIt resembles a mid-2Oth-century ranch-type tract house hutprobably built as a garage and chauffeur’s cottage for onelarge houses nearby. It is now a private residence.

i-story,its mass.

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dormer containing an arched windowconstructed of rubblestone are thewith the sophisticated neo-cbassicnow has extensive rear additions.Clark of Newark and later became ta prominent attorney who practiced

century: An asymmetrical, 1½-story, cross-gableingle cottage with a glass greenhouse wing. It wasthe gardner’s cottage for Cbarmar see number 243.

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married actor Douglas Fairbanks in 1907. A number of Fairbank’sshow-business colleagues visited here--among them Charlie Chaplinand Harold Lloyd--and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., spent summers hereas a child.

188 The Arches, now Ridgecrest 1903 with later alterations: A 21-story,- hip-roof Colonial Revival dwelling in the form o F a long, contained

rectangular block. A slightly projecting, shallow hip-roof, centralentrance pavilion is fronted by a semicircular Tuscan-column porticowith a roof balustrade. A tripartite window above this portico is -

framed by carved garland panels. The fenestration on the facade isasymmflrical, incorporating a single oval window in the arrangement.There were originally recessed porches in each end of the house; onehas been enclosed, the other has been glassed in to make a sun porch.The roof mass is broken by stone chimneys and hip-roof dormers. Thehouse was built for Mrs. C. Byron Cottrelb of Westerly.

189 Sunny Ledge ca 1915: A Modern Colonial dwelling with a massiveflank-gambrel roof containing the second story and attic. It isoriented with its back to Ridge Road, with a projecting, 1½-story,steep-gable-roof eli projecting from one corner. The street elevation is asymmetrical. An entrance is located in the end oppositethe gabled ell.

SEQUAN ROAD

NC 190 Lyman B. Goff -House 1973; Lyman B. Goff, architect: A multi-levelContemporary-style dwelling built on a hillside, composed of asymmetrically stacked, flat-roof, box-like units, it has vertical-hoard siding and large plate-glass windows.

NC 191 House mid-2Oth century: A 1-story, hip-roof, ranch-type dwellingwith garage hays recessed into the contained rectangular-block massof the house.

192 Llecttic Substation 1914 : A tiny 1-story, end-gable- roof, brickstructure with segmental-arch doors and windows and massive interiorend chimneys. it was built as a-high-power transformer station forthe Norwich Westerly Traction Company trolley line.

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193 Lillian Washburn House 1912: A compact 2½-story, hip-roof, cubical-mass, vernacular Shingle Style/Colonial Revival dwelling with a recessed entrance porch running along one side, a 1-story addition on


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the other side, and hippedburn of Morristown,nent San FranciscoParaguay in the l860s

NC 194 House 19type dwelcottages

It was builtof Charles A.

served as U.

60s: A 1-story, flank-gable-roof, aluminum-sided ranchling with two small gable-roof, mid-ZOth century guestin the hack yard.

195 Moorcroft, now Acropolis ca 1885mass dwelling with its second-stodormers breaking up throughroof corner bay over a wrapapartly enclosed and its origiron lattice supports. Thesiding. It was built by A.maintained by them as a renpresent site in 1902.

1899; Greenleaf Cobb of Boston, architects: A handAnne/Shingle Style dwelling of stone and white-painted

a broad, massive flank-gable roof encompassing itsnd attic. It is set end to the street, with recessedflanking a bay window covered by a deep overhang ofIt has a pair of semi-octagonal, semi-conical-roof

flank and a 2½- story dl on the other flank. Thehouse was built for Dr. E . R. Lewis, a Westerly physician.

oof dwelling with astory side additionts, square in sectisquare tower in one

central frontand a rear e

on, cut. in z.i gcorner Formed

tos sidinered-but-t

coin posedposts. therental cottage.

A tallgable, a

Ii. The-zag shapes.by the ma iii

g, the houseshi ngleworkof tin.

198 Harvey Cottage caa large, central jeroof rear dl. Thecessed veranda with

1890: A 2½-story, flank-gable-roof dwelling withrkin -bead- roof dormer on the front and a gambrel -

front roof slope extends forward to cover a returned posts and lattice trim. The jerkin-head

dormers.N.J., daughter

newspaperman who

for Lillian Wash-Washburn, a promi7

S. ambassador to

2-story, hip-roof, cubical-in gabled

-octagonal, flatda has been

: A lowry windows contained

the eaves. It has a semiround veranda. The veraninal posts have been replaced by wroughtexterior has been covered with alum mumMaxson Company of tVesterly and was

tal cottage. The house was moved to its

196 Sunset Viewsome Queenshingle, withsecond floor acorner porches

- the gable end.dormers on one

with later alterations:197 Bonnieview, now Stonecroft ca 18851½-story, flank-gable-rfront veranda, and a 1-veranda has untisti;i 1 pos‘[here is a broach - roofblock and the rear eli. Now covered with asbeswas originally elaborately detailed, with staggplain bargehoards , and arch-moti F gable screenstwisted ha lusters emulating the verandaby A. Maxson Company of Westerly as ato this site in 1902 from another location-.

house was hii I I tIt was moved


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dormer is fronted by a semi-octagonal bay topped with a semi-conicalroof. There is a semi-circular, lattice-enclosed porch on the rearof the rear ell. The first story has been covered with aluminumsiding but the remainder of the house is shingled, with staggered-butt patterning in the gable ends. The house was built for Mrs. E.B.Harvey.

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199 Sunnyridge 1903: A 2½-story, rectangular-block, white-paintedshingle, English Cottage-style dwelling covered with a hip roof withextended side slopes. It has a recessed central entrance under ahip-roof hood on brackets; a recessed, corner sun porch on one end;hipped dormers; and brackets accenting the eaves. It was built forMrs. C. Richmond Parsons of Providence. -

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200 Stone Leigh 1915: A large 3½-story, rectangular-block dwellingwith a massive N-gable roo.f containing its third story and attic.it, is set so the roof is oriented gable-flank to the street, witha large gabled dormer in the front slope and shed dormers fillingthe valley of the ‘N." The house hasa 2-story side wing with alow-pitch hip roof, and a stone post, gabled portico sheltering theoff-center entrance. The house was, probably built for the Curtisfamily and was once occupied by Rebekah Harkness, director of the

- Harkness Ballet see number 49

NC 201 Windrose Cottage 1955; T. Frederick Norton of Mystic, Connecticut,architect: A picturesque 1½-story, flank-gable-roof, clapboard CapeCod-type cottage with a projecting garage wing at’ one front corner.

202 Meadowcrest ca 1916; attributed to William John Cherry of New York,architect: An asymmetrical 2½-story dwelling distinguished by itscomplex roof mass. The main roof is hipped in form with extendedside slopes, intersected by a cross-jerkin-head unitnear one end ofthe building. There are shed and jerkin-head dormers in the sideslopes and shed dormers in the long flanks of the main hip roofthe profile of the roo F has been changed slightly by later altera -

- tions. The main entrance is located in one end of the cross-jerkinhead roof section. The fenestration is asymmetrical, with a pentroof on brackets over some first-story windows. On the water frontof. the house, the lawn is terraced, with a stone retaining wall incorporating buttresses and sections of arcading. The house was


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bUilt for Bradford Shinkle of Covington, Kentucky, president of theCovington Gas Company.

203 Wildacre 1916; William John Cherry of New York, architect: A large2½-story, jerkin-head-roof, weathered-shingle, English Cottage-styledwelling with an off-center entrance under a bracketed hood; asymmetrically arranged rectangular, arched, and segmental-arched windows;shed dormers; a massive exterior end chimney of stone; and 2- and1-story wings running off one side. It was built for F. KingsburyCurtis, previously owner of Shortlands see above. Curtis was activein the development of Tuxedo Park, New York, and Wildacre was part ofa smal-1 developmental subdivision known as Tuxedo Homes.

204 Shoreby ca 1915: An asymmetrical 2½-story, L-plan, stucco dwelling.One wing has a massive gable roof encompassing its second story andattic, and the other wing is covered by a hip roof with an extendedslope on the narrow end. Each wing has a recessed porch at its end.The one in the gabled section has stone posts and is now infilled;the one in the hipped section is arcaded. The main entrance, shelteredby an arched copper hood, is located in a polygonal 2-story, flat-roofpavilion set in the interior angle of the "L. " Massmve brick slahchimneys rise above the roof, which contains shed and gabled dormers.According to local tradition, the design of the house was inspiredby Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "The Black Arrow." The house wasbuilt for Frank Turnbull of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, owner of RogersPeet Company, a New York clothing store.

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‘ 205 Sea [haven ca 1965: A 2-story, gable-roof split-level dwelling withdeep overhanging eaves, a shed portico over the entrance, and asecond-story balcony deck.

206 Sunshine Garage and Chauffeur’s Residence early 20th century: A1½-story, bellcurve gambrel-roof building with garage hays on thefirst story, long shed dormers, and a second-story balcony a lateraddition. Modern plate-glass sliding doors have been installed onthe first story in place of the original door to the second floor.Built as a garage and chauffeur’s quarters for Sunshine see number

- 238 , it is now a private residence.

207 Louisiana 1902: A modern Colonial dwelling with a massive flank-gambrel roof encompassing its second story and attic. It is set ona lot at the corner of Sequan Road and oriented with its end toward


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Watch Hill toid. The rear elevation, facing Sequan Road,is -morereadily visible than the house’s facade. It has a shallow, end-gambrel ell at one end and a broad, hip-roof dormer unit at theother end that rises two full stories above the first floor of themain block. This tower-like mass contains-an off-center, archedstaircase window balanced by a picturesque array of asymmetricallyplaced rectangular windows of varied size. The facade northerlyside has a recessed veranda sheltering a central entrance. Thehouse was built’ for a Miss Carras and was for a number of years thesummer residence of the Detrick sisters of Baltimore, daughters ofJacob Stoll Detrick, a mechanical engineer and inventor who waspresident of the Detrick Harvey Machine Company.

208 Merrivale 1903 : A Modern Colonialgambrel roof containing its second send to the street on a lot at the cofronting on Watch [hill’ Roadcontains aenclosed with screens . On the flana small 1-story projection and a longroof central unit that rises to a fullwindows have been repi aced with modern

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209 York House caroof, side-hallpyramidal-roofmodern 1-story,of the original windThe house was owned

210 Fairview l870s: Awith a front verandaprojecting over a simansard. ftc g a in breout heart and crossof’ Postmaster W.N. York.

211 Hunt Cottage, later Greycote caroo F dwell ing iv i th a centml cut rend-gable projection containing adormers, overhanging eaves trimmedrear dl. The exterior is coveredboard and clapboard siding. Originhouse was altered for Dudley Phelps

dwell ing with a massive flanktory and attic. It is orientedrner of Popon Road. The endrecessed Tuscan-column porchk facing Popon Road there is

shed dormer with a small hip-3-story height. Some of thesash.

1850: A 2½-story, Flank-gahleance , a front veranda, a centralbay window over the veranda, gabledwith bargehoards, and a 1½-storywith a combination of vertical-ally built for Dr. Hunt, the

in 1902

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213 Stonyhurst ca 1897: A 2½-story, cross-gable-roof,dwelling with a wraparound veranda now partly enclosgable overhang, and shed dormers. It was built for Cbusines sman Hines Strobridge.

cross -planed , a frontincinnati

214 Wetumanetustory, hip-first storyshaped veraproj ection‘balcony,Chainplin

Henry W. Wilkinson of Syracubical -mass Shingle Styleshingle-clad second story.

ow partly enclosed., a centcenter of the second story

and’ eyebrow dorniers . ‘[he house wasof Westerly. Its Indian name means

cuse archi tect’ : A 2h-house with a rubblestone

It has a recessed, U-ral entrance, a slightthat contains a rece’s:edhu il t for Dr. John"Medicine Man’s House."

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215 Russula, now Tredegar 1900; ChapmanA Modern Colonial dwell ing with a massbig’ its second story and attic. It is set end to thefront gambrel end projecting over paired bay windows.dormers in the flanks of the gambrel. The house wasproperty by Maxson Company of Westerly For a Dr. Meoccupied at one time by Frederick Brooks of New Yorkdent of Brooks Brothers see number 155

216 Red ‘hop Fraser of Boston, architects: An asymmetrical dwelling with a complex roof. One sectionof the house has a massive gambrel roof containing the second storyand attic, with a shed dormer along one side that continues to formpart of a gable roof covering an eli. Tlifenestration, including an oriel window;on one flank; and a hip-roof dormer. Itof Westerly as a rental property for Dr.occupied by Miss [‘[.C. Frick of PittsburghNewberry of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan

e house hasasymmetricala massive exterior chimneywas bui lt by Maxson G COmpanyMerrill. The house was first

and later by Truman H.a prominent Detroit

212 Bóuldercrest cai h 3a

1890: A 2½-story vernacularoctagonal, conical-roof cornert -story,

between the house’s end-gabled mation. A wraparound veranda has aat the base of the tower. Thereby a low-pitch hip roof. A tailjigsawn bargeboard trim stands onoriginally an outbuilding.William A. Snively of Louisville,clergyman and writer on religions

Queen Anne dwellingtower set in the angle

in block and a gabled side projecdiagonal end-gabled unit projecting

is a 2-story rear addition coveredUi-story, gable-roof cottage withthe property and was probably

was built for the Reverendtucky, a prominent Episcopal

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217 House ca 1900: Amassive flank-gambreIt has an off-centershed dormers. It iswith shingles.

long, blocky Modern Colonial dwelling with a1 roof containing its second story and attic.entrance, a Tuscan-column entrance porch, andcovered partly with aluminum siding and partly

218 Albert Crandall house, later Catlin House 1843: A 2½-story, flank-gable-roof, 19th-century-vernacular dwelling with a 5-bay facade,a central entrance, a front veranda and a front bay window bothlater additions, a rear dl, gable returns, and hip-roof dormers.It is now covered with aluminum siding. The house was built forAlbert Crandall, son-in-law of former lighthouse keeper and innkeeperJonathan Nash. Crandall later sold the property to Governor JuliusCatlin, one of the early summer visitors at Watch Hill. The housewas turned on site to its present orientation in 1903.

219 The Snuggery ca 1890, remodeledroof dwell i ng with a wraparoundfrontal wing, and shed dormers.installed in the front gable.ertv for Westerly merchant George N. Burdick.

220 District 11 Schoolhouse 1852clapboard 19th- century verancularentrance. Iised as the Watch Hillbuilding housed a retail shop fromresidence.

1-story, end-gable-roof,ure with an off-centerct school until 1901, thisto the 1940s and is now a

NC 221 Sea- Cape

Shell caCod-type

1940s: A 1½-story, flank-gable-roof, center-entrance,dwelling..

222 halt imo re Cottage, later Wawaloam ca 1887 with alterations ca 1902:A well designed 2½-story, asymmetrical Queen Anne/Modern Colonialdwelling, now covered with aluminum siding. The original section ofthe house, covered by a saltbox roof, has an off-center entrance ina shallow projection encompassedwithin a semi-octagonal, semi -conical-roof entrance porch. Above, paired gable-roof dormers flank a broadend-gable central dormer that breaks up through the eaves to a full3-story height. In the rear, the extended roof slope covers a recessed veranda that extends beyond one end of the house. A long, shed-roof rear dormer is topped with a gable; above this is a single off-

1899 : A 2½-story, 1-plan, gahleveranda, part lv’ recessed under the

A modern picture window has beenThe house was built as a rental

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center, hip-roof attic dormer. Later additions include a shorter2½-story, flank-gable side wing and an enclosed, 1-story polygonalpavilion on one end of the rear veranda. The side addition projectsforward slightly from the main block and contains a subsidiary frontentrance sheltered by a gable-roof, latticework portico. Old photographs reveal that the house hasbeen slightly changed by alterationsthat have eliminated some quasi-medieval Queen Anne elements to givethe building a more straightforward Colonial character. The housewas built for Miss E. Adams of Baltimore, who sold it in 1902 toManton B. Metcalf of Orange, New Jersey, a son of Jesse Metcalf,owner of the Wanskuck Mills in Providence. Metcalf probablycommissioned the alterations to the house and renamed it Wawaloam aftera famous Narragansett squaw sachem.

22.3 The IVickiup ca 1890 with later additions: An asymmetrical, 2½-story, hip-roof dwelling with a gabled side pavilion, a wraparoundveranda surmounted-by a halustraded balcony, oriel windows, and avariety of dormers, including hipped and eyebrow dormers and a longside dormer with gabled end units linked by a flat-roof section.The gable of the side pavilion contains an arched window set in anembrasure with curving, shingled edges. There is a modern 2-story,gable-roof addition on the side opposite the side pavilion, linkedto the main block by a 1-story hyphen. The house was built forMrs. Clara H. Stanton and was later the house of J. Denniston Lyonof Sewickley, Pennsylvania,’ president of the Safe Deposit and TrustCompany of Pittsburgh.

224 Foster Farmhouse; Inglecote ca 1733, remodeled ca 1880 and ca 1890:A 1½-story, flank-gable-roof, center-entrance Colonial dwellingaltered into a "Swiss Chalet" in the late 19th century. The Victorianalterations include a new gable roof, with a hellcurve flare on thefront slope and deep overhanging eaves; a wraparound veranda partly

- screened in recessed under the flaring slope; a stickwork balconywith stick supports and bracework in one gable end; a large centralFront gable containing a bay window; and gabled dormers with stick-work in the peaks. The original part of the house was built for theFoster family, one of the First to settle at Watch Hill . The housewas later the center of the property known as the Everett Farm, andwas remodeled into its present form about the time the Farm was suh -

* divided into house lots.

225 The Wigwam, Rosemont, now Redlac ca 1890, altered 1900: A sprawling1½-story structure comprising an M-gable-roof main block with subsidiary shed- and hip-roof appendages. The roof mass overhangs the

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‘first story and is supported by large curved struts. There areshingled bows in the front gable peaks, and a tall, stone chimneyrising above the roof. The building was built as a stable for ClaraStanton’s house, The Wickiup, and was converted into a residence in1.900.

226 The Tepee, now Montrose 1899; attributed to John A. Tompkins ofNew York, architect: The main block of this Shingle Style dwelling,turned end to the street, has a massive, overhanging flank-gableroof encompassing its second story and attic. The roof mass isinterrupted by a ta-i, end-gable, central front dormer flanked oneach side by smaller gabled dormers. An entrance porch is recessedinto the first story and an exterior chimney on the street endpierces up through the gable overhang. At the rear of the main block,running along the street front, there is a 2½-story, gable-roof eliwith a slight second-story overhang and a long shed dormer that breaksthrough the eaves . ‘the exteri or walls are now covered with a I itmi numsiding. This house was built by the R.A . Sherman Company as a rentalproperty for Clara H. Stanton.

227 Spencecl i IF, now House-on-Iii 1 .1 1902 : A rninb I i iig , asynhlnett i calcomplexly massed stone and shingle Shingle Style dwelling set on astone-walled terrace atop a hill. The main block is a 1½-story,flank-gable-roof mass with a recessed, arcaded rubblestone entranceporch at one end of the facade. This porch is flanked by a 2-storysemi-circular, semi-conical roof stone stairhall tower which is

- backed by a 2½-story, end-gable pavilion that rises above the mainroof and the tower. A gable-roof, stone-post porch projects Fromthe Other end of the facade, and a 1-story, flat-roof, balustrade-topped addition extends from the main block beyond this porch. Otherdetailing includes two stone exterior chimneys, one, on the end andone on the front flanking the tower; an oriel window in the sidegable end; and hipped, shed, and eyebrow dormers. The house washtti lt for Jacob S. Burnet, one of three Cincinnati men invoived inthe subdivision and development of the Everett Farm property.

228 The Bungalow 1899; attributed to John A. Tompkins of New York,architect: A sprawling, picturesque, stone and shingle dwellingdominated by a massive, symmetrical hut complex roof mass encompassing

* its second story and attic. The roof is a modified "M" gable withextended side slopes, a flank-gable connecting hyphen in the valleyof the "N," and hip extensions across the gable ends forming pentroofs over the first- and second-story doors and windows. The twinfront gables contain paired second-story oriels with shingled bows


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peaks above.with paired

roof sections. The firstglazed and a recessed ceR.A. Sherman Company as awas first occupied by John

The roof has a front eyebrow dormergable-roof units connected by centralstory contains recessed porches now

ntral entrancetay. * The house was huLlrental property for Clara II. Stanton,Bushnell of Plainfield , New Jersey.

229 Chenowith, later the Ledges,of New York, architects: Awith an overhanging, complexhead forms with hipped extens

now Marheila 1914; Atterbury Tompkinslow, rambling, 1½-story, L-plan dwellingroof composed of intersecting jerkinions across their gable ends. At one

rear corner there is an enclosed, octagonal pavilion topped by apyramidal roof. A modern bow window has been installed in the -facadeof the main block. The house was built by R .A. Sherman Company as -

a rental property for Clara H. Stanton, and was ‘first occupied byMrs. Robert Allyn of Hartford. -

230 Hillside ca 1890 with later additions : An asymmetriend-gable-roof, Queen Anne vernacular dwelling with aroof side pavilion. The front angle between the mainpavilion is Filled by a second-story projection over athat extends Forward beyond the facade of the house.tion of this porch, under the second-story projection,closed. A curved bay window on the side pavilion is ssecond-story overhang. The house is set on a slopingbasement above grade on the pavil ion side. There is abasement porchon this side, support.i ng a- First- FloorFills the rear angle between the nia.i n block arid sideho use was built for Wi 11 iam P. Anderson, a member ofsyndicate that subdivided the Everettby members of his family, Charles and

Woodruff Memorialdoin-ashlar masonrysign James C. Wood

232 II [gui and Lodge, now MeranioSpringfield, Massachusettswith a massive flank-gmhrattic, a 2-story side bayroof rear dl’. A fronhouse supports a paira large, rectangular,strade. This centralgambrel containi tig a

Farm, and was First occupiedVachel IV. Anderson.

A monumentalinscribed to the

u r i 898 ; Gardner, Pyne Ca rdn e r o Farchitect: A Modern Colonial dwelling

el roof encompassing its second story andwindow, and a slightly shorter gambrel

t veranda that extends past the ends of theof polygonal second-story bay windows flankingflat-roof central bay topped by a roof haluhay is surmounted by an attic-level front

recessed hal cony. Ihe house was tin ii t For

iii the gableside dormers

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block and sideii en trance po i’chiThe hack por

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233 Pendleton i-louse ca 1840s: A 2½-storyj end-gable-roof, side-hall-’plan, clapboard Creek Revival dwelling with a pediment-form frontgahie containing a lunette window. The main entrance has side Lightsand a simple enframement of narrow boards. There are extensiveadditions to the rear and modern alterations, such as some modernsash in place of original windows.’ Tile house was built for a memberof the Pendleton family, one of the earliest families to settle atWatch Hill

234 Cedar Brae, now the Chalet 1897 : A low 2-story, flank-gable-roofdwelling with an end-gable central front pavilion, a stickwork frontporch, and deep overhanging eaves. It was built for the MissesSusan Keith of Baltimore and Eleanor B. Congdon of Providence.

235 Ivy Cottage 1850s?, remodeled ca 1895: An asymmetrical dwelling,clad partly in shingle and partly in aluminum siding, comprisingtwo sections of different vintage. The original portion is a 2-story,gable-roof, mid-l9th-century vernacular cottage. Perpendicular tothis section is a larger 1½-story Modern Colonial-style additionwith a massive gable roof that sweeps down in a curve on one flank.The later section has a recessed porch under the curved flank thatextends across the narrow end. This section also has gabled dormersand an oriel window in the end gable.

236 Collins House, later Manham or Main Brace ca 1850s : A long, tall1½-story, cross-gable-roof, clapboard 19th-century vernacular dwel lingwith an off- center veranda across part of the facade and a glazed,recessed porch in one end of the building a later alteration.

237 Building early 20th-century: A small, 1-story, hip-roof, white-pa inted brick structure with an oFF-center entrance and a shed-roofrear section. Ilie doors and windows a-re set in segmental arch openings.this building, now a residence, has an industrial look to it and mayhave beenbuilt as some sort of a utility service building.

238 Sunshine Cottage l898 with addi tions 191 7-20; Chapman, Fraser- i3liven oF Boston, architects For additions: A ramhl ing Modern

Colonial structure with massive flank-gambrel roofs containing itssecond story and attic. It comprises a symmetrical central blockflanked by splayed sidewings. The central block has a recessedcentral entrance under a projecting Tuscan-column, hip-roof porch;


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