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United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of-Historic Places
Inventory-Nomination Form
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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