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N’’’ I ,r,,, I{I ‘IClI ;, ‘P.111 III.’I 111111 I ,II III II Il-I United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For Nt’S use only National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form deen!orod - ContinuatIon sheet 12 Item number 7 Paqe 13 Bluff Avenue cont . with the Watch Hill House hotel now demolished 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 Regency touches, altered -somewhat since its construction. The house coin prises a rectangular, hip-roof main block; a few rectangular, hiproof wings and pavilions; and four prominent, slab-like brick chim neys , all assembled into an asymmetrical composition. The roofs rise from the edges of the wall tops without intervening overhangs or parapets, giving the buildings a crisp, hard-edge quality. The fenestration is asymmetrical and includes a few shed dormers. The southerly elevation has large plate-glass windows overlooking Block Island Sound. Period detailing is limited to a few Regency Iatt icework porches, window shutters, and a single barrel-roof dormer. The house was built for Mrs. George Grant Snowden , wife of a Philadelphia - oil-company executive. It was later the property of William Hale and Rehekah Harkness of New York City. Mrs. Harkness , director of the Harkness Ballet Company, ran a summer ballet series here for a few years in the mid-1960s see number 200 50 The Kedge , now Hill House 1903 : A large Modern Colonial/Shingle Style dwelling with a massive flank-gambrel roof encompassing its second story and attic. An off-center, columned entrance porch with a Chinese Chippendale roof balustrade is flanked on each side by a 2-story bay window with a low-pi tch polygonal hip roof. The roof - mass 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 late 20th century, and there is a massive brick exterior chimney on each end of the building. The house was built as a summer residence for IL P. Ballantine of Newark, N.J. , president of the Ballantine Brewing Company. It was later the property of Ballantine’s daughter and sonin-law, Roberta and John O.H. Pitney. Mr. Pitney 1897-1942 was a partner in the Newark law firnY Pitney, 1-lardin Skinner. NC Si Ilonse ca 1962 An a-syinmetri cal 2-story, split-level - type tract house with intersecting end- and Flank-gable roofs NC 52 House ca 1968: A 2-story, flank-gable-roof, split-entry-ranch-type dwelling 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. - See Continuation Sheet 413
NI’S l,IU’, III’ThI a - - United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of-Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form For NPS use onty received dale entered I MIl N’, In,’,i 111111 I * III II II Continuatpon sheet 13 Item number 7 Paqe 14 Bluff Avenue cont. It has a symmetrical S-bay facade with a central entrance, entrance porch with a roof balustrade, side porches, four chimneys, a modillion cornice, and hip-roof dormers . The constructed as a summer residence for A. Clifford Shinkle, of the Central Trust Company of Cincinnati. a columned end - wall house was president NC 54 House ca 1980: A 2- and 3-story, cubical-mass, flat- and shed-roof, weathered-clapboard dwelling with large plate-glass windows overlook ing Block Is land Sound. It is designed in the manner of Moore Lyndon Turnhull Whitaker ‘s Sea Ranch Condominium development in California. 55 Sunnandene 1906: A 2½-story, hip-roof, stucco Tudor with half-timbering detailing. It has a symmetrical fa slightly projecting front pavilions Flanking a central tered by a massive-timber porch. The house was built a residence for Sophie Moen of Boston and was later owned 1-loward Bush of Troy, N.Y. , granddaughter of Hartford and resident James L. howard see By- the-Sea Revival dwei, ling cade with two ent rance shel - s a summer by Julia Watch Hill S6 Watch Hill Union Chapel 1876-77; addition 1887; altered 1902 and 1928; George Keller, original architect : In its present Form this is a 1-story neo-Coionial structure on a sloping site, with a base - ment story at grade at the rear and a tall hip roof topped by an octagonal cupola at the front. A columned entrance porch with a roof parapet shelters three arched doorways. The exterior waiJs are now covered with aluminum siding but a triglvph decorative frieze remains. Originally a Modern Gothic structure with a projecting end-gabled entrance porch, j igsawn hargehoard and gable-screen trim, and a st ickwork belfry the chapel was later enlarged in 188 7 by the cons truction of an ide ntic ally detailed, parallel side addition with its own porch and belfry. In 1902 an organ and pews replacing chairs were installed inside and in 1928 the exte nor was refurbished to its p resent state, with uniform ma ssi.n g and classical detailing. Only the interior survi yes intact, wi. tli its natural -wood wall finish U 5C r i he d with blue -amid -gold mottos ‘Iii e clia pa I society was organ i z ed in 187 S by nine year-ro und and s imnime r residents. George M. Nash, own er of the ‘ihe original Ocean House hotel chapel, meas ii r i n g gave 30 by the society the lot in 1876. 60 f act, was subsequently built and dedicated on 18 July .t 8 7 7 For many years the Sunday schedule included an early morning - Roma Catholic mass, a i.ate-morn ng non - denominational Protestant service, and early-evening servIce s f o -r blacks in the basement. The chapel now measures 90 by 100 fe et and has the a seating organ and capacity of 700. it is noted for the chamber-quartet music that constitutes high qual ity part of the of services. See Continuation Sheet 1114
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