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NI *,‘,,‘, I’’ Inn 1 - I,MH II k_’, - *I III i-I United States Department of the Interior National Park Service For NI’S use only National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form received Con t imm at on si ieet .1 ‘I Iteu ti number 7 Page 1 S Bluf.f Avenue cont . - 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
NI’S II,,n, 111-9001 I MII N,p Ill-I 11111 - II :11 14 United States Department of the Interior - - National. Park Service For Nt’S use only - National Register of Historic Places received - Inventory-Nomination Form ContInuatIon sheet .1 S - hun riuiithei 7 Paqe .1 6 Ri-owning Road cont. - windows have - been replaced with modern casements and picture windows. This was probably constructed as a combination garage and chauffeur’s cottage for Idle Rest number 164. 60 House ca 1915 A rambi i.ng, 2½-story, oai.nted shingle dwell ing coal- posed of Four wings of unequal length a i-ranged -in a tooso , spi :iyed "M" shape. It is covered by a low-pitch hip roof with overhanging, stick-bracketed eaves and several eyebrow dormers . The house is anchored by three massive stone chimneys and an octagonal, ogee- roof stone tower set in the central interior angle of the "M. The f en e strati on consists of asymmetrically disposed double-hung and casement win dows arranged singly asymmetrical ly placed, recessed and in groups, entrance porch. and there is an 61 Windansea 1922; Mott B. Schmidt, architect : A whitewashed rubblestone dwelling in the style of an Italian rural villa, compri sing a 2-story rectangular block with a low-pitch hip roof and a range of two 1-story, flank-gable blocks attached to one side. The house has an off-center, end-gable entrance pavilion with an arched window and a wrought-iron balcony over the -door; asymmetrical fenestration; and exposed-rafter eaves bracketing. A 2-story, gable-roof, detached garage stands to one side of the house. The house is fronted by a courtyard with a central well and a low stone wall around it. The buildings 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. CHAPEL PLACE - In 1902 he moved to New Mexico, where he was a member of the Tern - tonal Council and president of the Santa Re Railroad. 62 House early 20th century gable roof, rafter-bracket by built-in seats sheltered addition with sliding plate cottage was reportedly buil A tiny shingle bungalow with a low-pitch eaves 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’his t as an outbuilding of the Shinkle estate. 63 Breeze Cote ca 1 885 altered early 20th century and ca 1955-GO: 12-story, gable roof clapboard bungalow that- probah 1’ a ssumed its present form in the early 20th century. it has a glazed porch recessed into the house mass, a side hay window, and shed dormers The cottage was built for William C. Hastings of Yonkers, N .Y, a nephew of H artford and Watch b-li]. I resident -J ames L . b-Iowa rd. It A originally stood on Mastuxet Terrace and was later moved to this site. See Contini.ia tion Sheet //16
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