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NC 78 Lloyd House l970s: A 1½-story, flank-gamhrel-roofneo-Coloniai
dwelling with a central entrance in a 7-bay facade and gabled dormers.
It is covered with aluminum siding.
79 Ocean Mount, now Sea Swept ca 1880; attributed to arclii tect George
Keller of llartford A 1½-story, cross-plan, cross-gable-roof, Modern
Gothic dwelling with a wraparound veranda, board-and-batten siding,
jig-sawn vergeboards , and gabled dormers . On the southerly side there
is an extensive i-story addi tion with a very low-pi tch hip roof. i’his
addtion, built about the turn of the century, has some modern fenestrat
ion.-- The house appears on the 1895 map of Watch Hill as the property
of C . W . Hutchinson and uva s reportedly owned by Freeman Cudworth o.f
Pawtucket, R . I . , in 1889. During the early 1900s Ocean Mount was
occupied by Frances C. Griscom of Tallahassee, Florida, daughter of
Mr - and Mrs. Clement A. Griscom, who owned the nearby house Edged i
number 41. -
80 The Manor, now The Point 1906; Edward F. Hinkle , architect
large, asymmetrical, 2½-story, hip-roof dwelling with Colonial
and Craftsman detailing. Au end-gable front paviliOn contains
entrance framed by engaged Tuscan columns and an entablature.
entablature is surmounted by a balustrade that runs in front of a
Palladian window. The front pavii ion is flanked on one side by a
2½-story, hip-roof wing projecting forward from a corner of the ma in
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81 Watch Hill Light 1855-56 et seq. The light ho u s es comprises a
3-story, square, rock--face granite-block tower to p p e d with a cast-i ron
and glass lantern, attached to a2-stoTy, hip- roof, whit ewashed brick
keepers’- house with a 1-story eli extending to the re-ar-from the
houses’ s westerly side. The lantern contains a fourth -order revo I ving
Fresnel lens whose onigina.l oil lamps have bee n replaced by an electric
iamnli. ‘rue station complex also includes a sUm ccoed shed o rig imia I I v
Inmi Lt. as an oil house 1855-56, a brick sigmia I lion so earl y 20th
century, a garage-workshop t939 , and a stee I radio- beacon tower.
The U.S. government purchased Watch Hill Point as the site for a
lighthouse in 1806. The first light, a wooden tower, was put in
operation in 1808. Physical deterioration of the on gi nal structure
led to its replacement by the present I ghthouse in 1855-56. The
first light keeper, Jonathan Nash served 1808-ca 1835 , mi tiated the
development of Watch Hill as a summer resort by taking in seasonal
boarders in the 1830s.
See Coiit uiuat.on Sheet //20
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