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NIS It,,,, II I 1A11 II-’ 111.-I 111111<br />
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United States Department <strong>of</strong> the Interior<br />
<strong>National</strong> Park Service -<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Register</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Historic</strong> <strong>Places</strong><br />
Inventory-Nomination Form<br />
For NPS use only<br />
received<br />
date entered<br />
Continuation sheet 16 hem nuniher 7 Paqe 17<br />
Chapel Place cont. -<br />
NC 64 Sea Down ca 1925-30: A large, 1½-story, flank-gable<br />
Cod type dwelling with an <strong>of</strong>f-center, partly enclosed<br />
porch; a rear eli and porch; asymmetrical fenestnation<br />
dormers . It is now covered with aluminum siding. It<br />
site <strong>of</strong> the Atlantic House hote’ , which burned in [916<br />
was originally owned by Julia Howard Bush <strong>of</strong> ‘Iroy, N.Y<br />
NC 65 Building ca 1925-30 : A 1½-story, gable-ro<strong>of</strong>, shingle structure<br />
with a 1-story, shed-ro<strong>of</strong> side extension. It contains a two- car<br />
garage and a small residential unit. It was built as a garage for<br />
the nearby dwelling Sea Down number 64<br />
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front<br />
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entrance<br />
shed<br />
on the<br />
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66 The Dormers 1907 : A large Colonial Revival shingle dwelling with<br />
a massive, flaring flank-gable ro<strong>of</strong> containing the second story and<br />
attic. The ro<strong>of</strong> mass is broken by long shed dormers at second-story<br />
level and low, hip-ro<strong>of</strong> dormers at attic level. The asymmetrical<br />
facade contains an <strong>of</strong>f-center, pilaster-framed, recessed entrance<br />
flanked by hay windows. At the rear is a lb-story, hip-ro<strong>of</strong>, shingled<br />
cottage built 1927 that originally seTved as a servants’ residence.<br />
67 Watch Hill Improvement Society 1916: A 1-story, cross-gable-ro<strong>of</strong>,<br />
stucco structure with half-timber trim in the gable ends. The frontal<br />
wing contains a recessed entry framed by columns, set under a pro<br />
jecting cornice with bracket trim. The Improvement Society was founded<br />
in 1888 and incorporated in 1889 by -35 Watch Hill men to foster civic<br />
pride and promote physical, public-health, social, and intellectual<br />
imprpvement in the community. By 1900 women had assumed a proprietary<br />
role in the organization. This building was given to the society by<br />
Mary Clarke Newell in memory <strong>of</strong> Prances Ayres Clark and Anne Stuhbs<br />
Burnet.<br />
68 ,John II. Clark House ca 1890 : A 2-story, - flank-gable-ro<strong>of</strong>. rec -<br />
t a ngti I a r - hI ock , Modern Co I oni al - sty I e , sh .ngl e Iwel I I ng w i tll n open<br />
recessed porch on one end which extends forward to Form a 2-story,<br />
polygonal, hip-ro<strong>of</strong> porch tower enclosed with windows on the secondstory<br />
level. The house has an <strong>of</strong>f-center entrance, asymmetrical<br />
fenestration, and an <strong>of</strong>f-center, hipped Front lormel-. This was bit ii t<br />
as a summer residence for -John I-I. Clark <strong>of</strong> Cleveland, an Ohio -attorney<br />
who became an associate justice <strong>of</strong> the 11.5. Supreme Court.<br />
See Continuation Sheet #17
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