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United States Department of the Interior -
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
Inventory-Nomination Form
Continuation sheet 37
Ocean View Highway cent. - -
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NC 163 Ward House ca 1916 A 1½-story, rectangul ar-block dwelling covered
hy a flank-gable roof with hip extensions across the ends. A
central cress-gable in one flank and long shed dormers dominate
mai.n roof mass so it -is nearly invisible. Fenestration i. asym
metrical, with a number of medern windows in place of the origi
ones. Extensive alterations, including a 1-story sun porch on
end and sliding plate-glass doors opening onto a deck, give thi
the appearance of a mid-2Oth-century suhurban tract dwelling.
house was built for Wilfred Ward of Westerly.
164 Idle Rest ca 1916 A tall, 1½-story, rectangular-block shingle
dwelling with a broad fl-gable roof encompassing its second story and
attic. It has an off-center entrance sheltered by a flat-roof
portico and a 1-story, hip-roof side addition. Shed-roof dormers on
each Flank of the house contain small recessed balconies. A numher
of first-floor windows have been replaced with modern fenestration -
The house was built for Charles F. Sherman of Westerly -
16S Misquamicut Golf Club 1900 et seq. ; Atterhury Tompkins of New
York, architects A rambling 2-story Shingle Style building of
fieldstone and shingled-frame construction, wi tihi complex massing
- produced by a series of stylistically compatible additions to the
original, smaller clubhouse. The oldest portion of the building is
a contained, symmetrical rectangular block with a massive hip reef
encompassing the second fleer and attic. This block is flanked b
asymmetrical hip- roof wings, one rectilinear, the other L-shaped
in plan. The ‘‘L’’ wing, fronted by a s tone-pest porch with a porte
cochere, terminates at a 2 -story, irregular-octagonal pavilion with
a tall pyramidal roof. The most distinctive features of the building
are several broad, low j erkin-head dormers in the roofs of the main
block and wings. -At the rear of the ma i.n block, a curved sun porch
is surmounted by a similarly shaped dormer capped with a low semi -
conical roof. The Misquamicut Golf Club was founded in 1895 and
originally purchased property on the opposite south side of Ocean
Vi ew I-highway, where it developed a 9-hole golf ceurse and converted
an old corn crib into a clubhouse. The present course was laid out
by the late Donald Ross, America’s foremost golf-course architect.
A tennis clubhouse on the grounds, designed by Lyman Goff of Watch
liii, and hui it in 1979, is a whimsical small-scale adaptation of
McKim, Head fT White’s Newport Casino.
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