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57 Collins Cottage 1880; attributed to George Keller, architect:
A 2-story, painted shingle Modern Gothic dwelling comprising an
L-plan section, turned with its interior angle to the rear, and a
large square front tower at the end opposite the exterior angle of
the ‘L. The "L" section is covered by intersecting gable roofs,
creating an end gable at one end of the facade, and the tower is
topped by a tall pyramidal roof with shed-roof dormers and a wroughtiron
finial. There is a shed-roof front veranda with tapered square
- posts, surmounted by a narrow roof balcony the posts and balcony
are probably later alterations , and projecting 1- and 2-story hays
with hip or shed roofs. Detail ing includes kicked-out wall sheathing
creatIng a stringcourse-like break between first and second floors,
some patterned shingle work, and hargeboard trim. The house was
built 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 exly
massed ciaphoad structure set on a hillside site overlooking Block
Island Sound. The original portion, near Bluff Avenue, comprises
two 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 . Two
4-story, parallel wings with low-pitch hip roofs run back to the -
southeast from the L-shaped portion of the building, rising above the
hillside on high basements. The outer end of each wing contains a
recessed, glazed porch at first-floor level. A columned Colonial
Revival veranda, partly enclosed, runs along the southwesterly side
and northwesterly end of the building. The west end is also fronted
by a 2-story, bow-front entrance portico with colossal Corinthian
columns. The parallel, southeasterly wings were added in 1903,
probably together with the veranda and portico. The Ocean Ihouse
wa.s built for George M. Nash, whose father, lighthouse keeper Jonathan
Nash, was the first person to take seasonal boarders at Watch hill
[he Ocean blouse is notable as one of the very few extant and functioni.ng
[9th-century resort ‘hotels remaining in Rhode island.
BROWNiNG ROAD -
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-center
en trance under a segmnen tal hood is flanked by a mass ive cobblestone
front chimney on one side and a hay window with modern glazing on
the other. A garage bay is recessed in -one end of the facade and a
porch, now enclosed, is recessed into the opposite end. The original
- See Continuation Sheet #15