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NI’S 11,11,1 III 11111 I! I IMII N,I IlI?.l 111111 - I .‘, III II Ill United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service- . - For NI’S use only National Register- of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form - received Continuation sheet 46 - Item number 7 Page 47 ‘4atch Hill Road cont. - Watch Hill Poad. The rear elevation, facing Sequan Road, is more readily visible than the house’s facade. It has a shallow, endgambrel dl at one end and a broad, hip-roof dormer unit at the other end that rises two full stories above the first floor of the main block. This tower-like mass contains - an off-center, arched staircase window balanced- by a picturesque-array of asymmetrically placed rectangular windows of varied size. The facade northerly side has a recessed veranda sheltering a centi-al entrance. The house was built for a Miss Carras and was, for a number of years the summer residence of the Detrick sisters of Baltimore, daughters of Jacob Stoil Detrick, a mechanical engineer and inventor who was president of the Detrick 1-larvey Machine Company. 208 Merrivale 1903 : A Modern Colonial dwelling with a massive flank gambrel roof containing its second story and attic. It is oriented - end to the street on a lot at the corner of Popon Road. The end fronting on Watch lilt’ Road contains a recessed Tuscan-column porch enclosed with screens . On the flank facing Popon Road there is a small 1-story projection and a long shed dormer with a small hiproof central unit that rises to a full 3-story height. Some of the windows have been repl acedi w th modern sash WAUWINNET AVENUE - 209 York House ca 1845 with additions ca 1895 : A 2½-story, end-gahlI - roof, side-hall-plan Greek Revival dwelling with a 3-story, octagonal pyramidal -roof corner tower added in the late 19th cehtury and a modern 1-story, flat-roof side addition with a picture window. Al 1 of the original windows have been replaced wi tli modern casement sash. The house was owned by J .C - York in the late 19th century. 210 Fairview l870s : A 1½-story, mansard-roof; s.ide-hall-plan cottage with a front veranda, an off-center front gambrel, a- side gambrel proiectng over a sidle hay window, and shed-hooded dormers in the iim;insa rd - ‘l’he gainbre I s a m’c t m i mined wit-h ha rgeho;m rds con ta I im i rig cut’ - out Im ea r t and cross slm apes - For many yea ‘s tim is was tli e res i deuce of Postmaster W.N. York. 211 Hunt Cottage, later Greycote ca 1850 : A 2½-story, flank-gable r’oo.f dwe l iii ng w i th a cent NI I. en t rance , a front veranda , a ccii t ra I end-gable pro7ection containing a bay window over the veranda, gabled dormers , overhanging eaves trimmed with hargehoards , and a 1½- story rear dl - The exterior is covered with a combination of verticalhoard and clapboard siding. Originally built for Dr. Hunt, the house was altered for Dudley Phelps in 1902. - - See Continuation Sheet //47
NI’S fl,,I, ‘1111 IIMFI N,, II14 1111111 - -- I ,o IU-ji-114 United States Department of the Interior - National Park Service For NI’S use only National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form .*--** rec&ved - --‘. - - Continuation sheet 47 Item number 7 Page 48 IVauwinnet Avenue cont. - - - 212 Bóuldercrest ca 1890: A 2½-story vernacular Queen Anne dwelling with a 3-story, octagonal, conical-roof corner tower set in the angle between the house’s end-gabled main block and a gabled side projec tion. A wraparound veranda has a diagonal end-gabled unit projecting at the base of the tower. There is a 2-story rear addition covered by a low-pitch hip roof. A tal 1 1½-story, gable-roof cottage with j igsawn hargeboard trim stands on the property and was probably originally an outbuilding. The house was built for the Reverend William A. Snively of Louisville, Kentucky, a prominent Episcopal clergyman and writer on religions topics. - 213 Stonyhurst ca 1897: A 2½-story, cross-gable-roof, cross-plan dwelling with a wraparound veranda now partly enclosed , a frontgable overhang, and shed dormers. 1t was built for Cincinnati businessman Hines Strobridge. 214 Wetumanetu 1899; 1-lenry W. Wilkinson of Syracuse archi tect : A 2½story, hip-roof, cubical -mass Shi ngle Style house wi tb a ruhhl c-stone - first story and a shingle-clad second story. It has a recessed, U-shaped veranda now partly enclosed, a central entrance, a slight projection in the center of the second story that conta ins a rccescd balcony, andl eyebrow dormers - The house was huil t for Dr - John Champlin of Westerly. Its Indian name means "Medicine Man’s house l’;LSTERLY ROAD 215 Russula, now Tredegar 1900; Chapman L Fraser of Boston, architects A Modern Colonial dwelling with a massive flank-gambrel roof contain ing its second story and attic. ft is set end to the street with its front gambrel end proj ecting over paired bay windlows - dormers property in the flanks by Maxson of the Company gambrel. Th e house was built of Westerly for a Dr. Merrill. occupied at one time by Frederick Brooks of New York City, dent of Brooks Brothers see number 155 - 216 Red ‘lop 1900; Chapman Fraser of Boston, architects: metrical Modern Colonial dwelling with a complex roof. One of the house has a massive gambrel roof containing the seco and attic, with a shed dormer along one side that continues part of a gable roof covering an oil . The house has asymmo fenestration, including an oriel window; a massive exterior on one flank; and a hip- roof dormer. It was built by Maxson of Westerly as a rental -property for Dr. Merrill. The house There are shed as a ft vice occupied by Miss H.C. Prick of Pittsburgh and later by Truman H. Newberry of Grosse Pointe Farms , Michigan, a prominent Detroit See Continuation Sheet ff48 rental was presi - An tmsynmsecti on nd story to form trica 1 chimney Company was first
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