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

- Inventory-Nomination
NI’S ‘onfl 10010 a - - ‘Mu N., In?4 0011’
- -‘F -I’ Ill II - III
United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service For NI’S use only
National Register of Historic Places
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Continuation sheet 32 Item number 7 Page
Ninigret Avenue cont.
side veranda, -now glazed, with a tall ‘hip rooF pierced by a gable -
roof pavilion that proj ects from the second story. The front gable
has an overhanging peak above the attic windows - The house is now
covered with aluminum siding. lt was built for IV. Snowden Smith.
143 The Boulders; LaMaritima 1898; ‘I’racy Magoni gte oF New York, arch
- tects : An eclectic Shingle Style cottage combining Features drawn
from New England Colonial and European Medieval sources. The main
mass of the house is a horizontal rectangular block with a flankgambrel
roof encompassing its second story and attic. At one end of
the Facade there is a proj ecting end-gable pavilion with deep eaves
boxed in and shaped to form a Gothic-arch recess at attic level.
This pavilion is ofFset by a front dormer with a very steep gable
roo F, and there is a tiny dormer with a high-peak hip roof between
the pavilion and the gabled dormer. A wraparound veranda constructed
of small boulders continues through the first-story oF the Front
pavi lion as a recess the veranda is now gla zed . There is a 2-story,
semi-circular hay window at the rear corner of the end opposite the
Front pavil ion. The house was built -For Will iam N - Greene - -
144 i’lie Cedars ca 1.890 with later additions: A iarge, rambLing 2’story
Shingle Style dwelling articulated into two dist inct sub -
sections. The main bloc-k, covered by an M-gahle roof, is vaguely
‘‘Colonial’’ in character. It has a second-story overhang, an asymmetrical
fenestration incorporating a Palladian window randomly placed
as a decorative element. Attached to the main block is a large wing
with elements derived From late Medieval French architecture. This
section has a tall hi p roof and shallow, pol ygonal corner hays with
semi-conical turret roofs that barely project from the main mass.
The first- floor facade of this end with the shall ow bays is con
structed of small boulders - The junction of the two sub-sections is
anchored by a
by Dr. - Joseph
2-story tower with a conical roe F.
P - Anderson and was sold soon a Fter
The house was built
to Mr. and Mrs
Nelson Penn of Baltimore. -
iOoNA’{Cl-l ROAI -
NC 145 House ca 1970?: A 1-story, gable-rooF cottage with asymmetrical
fenestrati.on.
146 House ca 1920 : A tiny 1½-story, hallcurve-gahle-roof, cottage with
a recessed front porch, a side-hall entrance, and a shed-roo F Front
dormer. -
See Con t in vat i on Slice t II 33