National Register of Historic Places - Rhode Island Historical ...

NPS rorm ‘1900-, . . OMII Pin 1024 -00111
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United States Department of the Interior
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National Register of Historic Places received - --
Inventory-Nomination Form -date e!ltercd -
Continuation sheet 23 Item number 7 Page 24
Meadow Lane cont.
97 Edgecove ca 1885: A large, 2½-story, cross-plan, cross-gable,
Shingle Style dwelling with a wraparound veranda. The prominent,
equilateral- triangle front gable sweeps down to encompass the second
floor, with its recessed balcony, and continues to form the roof
sections over the side wings of the veranda. On one side wing, the
gable end has a jerkin.-head profile and a recessed second-story corner
balcony - A small 1½-story, end--gabled cottage addi tion built ca 1980
with a -front porch enclosed by sliding plate-glass doors, is attached
to the original house by a short elI and an enclosed section of the
veranda. The house was built for ILL. Lyon of Cincinnati see 92 and 93.
98 Anchorage, now Channel Mark 1913-14; Wilson Lyre, Jr. of Phi lade lphiia,
architect: A 2½-story, flank-gable-roof, rectangular-block Colonial
Revival dwelling with a 1-story garage wing on one side topped by a
flat roof with a roof balustrade. The asymmetrical facade contains
a central Palladian stair-landing window between floor levels, an
end-hay entrance under a shed hood supported by brackets, and a broad
i-story hay window on the opposite end of the facade - Other details
include pechimented dormers , a balustraded widow’s walk, and pal red
exterior end-wall. chimneys. The chimneys ar-c inscribed wi Lii the dates
‘‘1888’ and ‘‘1914’’. The earlier date refers to the construction of
the original cottage on this site, now moved across the street see
number 95 ; the later is the date of construction of the present
building. The house was built for Annie B - Mc Connell , wi fe of the
Reverend Samuel P. McConnell.
99 Breezy Lodge , now Geranium Point 1902 e t seq - : Th i s was o ri g i mi I I y
a svminet ri cal 2½- story , Ii ip - roo f dive 11 in g ivi th a 3-h a y facade - The
original portion has a central entrance flanked by French doors, a
front veranda with a central front gable, a central second- floor hay
window , and a shed- roof front. dormer. The house has been enlarged
I’ the construction of a 2-story hip-ioof addition on one side with
gla:ed sun porches on both levels. The veranda has been extended
- across the front of the addition; th i_s extensi on is a I so glazed -
the house was built for Henry A. Robinson of Yonkers, N. I -
100 Bl.vthiehourne ca 1885: A large, 2½-story, rectangular dweLling
covered by a short - gable-roof section linking two massive end-jerk in- -
head- roof units that sweep down to encompass the second floor on each
end of the house. Its central front entrance is sheltered by a shallow,
shingled-post, shed- roof porch - The roof masses are bro ken by hip -
and shed-roof dormers. On oneside the roof slope continues down
between second-story dormers to
was built as a summer residence
cover a
for the
1-story end porch -
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See Continuation Sheet 1124