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National Register of Historic Places
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30 Commercial Building ca 1910 A 2½-story, cross-jerkin-head-roof
structure now covered with vertical-groove plywood panels on the
front and asphalt siding on the sides. It has an original store front
under a veranda with turned posts supporting a glazed 2nd-story
porch. 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 1story,
partly enclosed veranda along the south side and a large,
modern, flat- roof addition on the west at basement and first-floor
levels. This addition, with an overhang supported on stilts,. is
enclosed with windows overlooking the harbor. Built for Nathan Nash,
son of Watch Hill lighthouse keeper and hotelier Jonathap Nash, the
Narragansett House was one of the earliest hotels at Watch Hill and
is one of the village’s oldest survi ving structures. It still operates
as an inn,
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- House ca 1920 : A long
bungalow, set end to the
and narrow,
street with
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1-story, hip-roof, stuccoed
a glazed porch on the front.
33 Watch Hill Court 1920s? through 1960s : A motel complex consisting
of three buildings: -
NC A l940s: A 1-story stucco building comprising a contained, rectilinear
mass covered by a complex array of parallel and intersecting
- low-pitch gable roofs. - -
NC B 1960s : A 1-story, rectangular, gable-roof structure resembi ing
a ranch - type tract house. -
NC C .1 920s? with later altei-ations: A structu re compri s mg two 2-story,
stone an d stucco wings arranged parallel to each other, connected by
a perpen dicular, 1-story, flat-roof wing co ntaining garage bays with
ea ily 20 th - century double-leaf garage doors One of the parallel
wings ha s a hip roof; the other has a fiat roof and modern fenestra
t I on wh i ch indicates it was either altered or newly constructed in
the mid- 20th century. The buildings occupy the site of the Plympton
House, a 19th-century hotel razed- in 1938. Part of building C was
probably constructed as an outbuilding of the Plympton House.
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