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National Register of Historic Places
Inventory-Nomination Form
Continuation sheet 49
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center, hip-roof attic dormer. Later additions include a shorter
2½-story, flank-gable side wing and an enclosed, i-story polygonal
pavilion on one end of the rear veranda. The side addition proj ects
forward slightly from the main block and contains a subsidiary front
entrance sheltered by a gable-roof, latt icework portico. Old photo
graphs reveal that the house has been slightly changed by alterations
that have elimina ted some dluasi -medieval Queen Anne elements to gi ye
the building a more straightforward Colonial character - ‘Ihe house
was built for Miss U. Adams of Baltimore, who sold it in 1902 to
Manton B. Metcalf of Orange, New Jersey, a son of Jesse -Metcalf,
owner of the Wanskuck Mills in Providence - Metcalf probably commis
sioned the alterations to the house and renamed it Vawaloam after
a famous Narragansett squaw sachem.
22.3 The IVickiup ca 1890 with later additions : An a symmetrical, 2½-
story, hip-roof dwelling with a gabled side pavi] ion, a wraparound
veranda surmounted by a halustraded balcony, one I windows , and a
variety of doraiers , including hipped and eyebrow dormers and a long
side dormer with gabled end units linked by a fla t - roof section.
The gable of the side pavilion contains an arched wndow set in an
emhrasure with curving, shingled ediges. ‘‘here is a modern 2-story,
gable-roof addition on the side opposite the side pavil ion, I inkedh
to the ma in block by
Mrs - Clara H. Stanton
a 1- story
and was
hyphen.
later the
The house was built for
house of J. Denniston Lyon
of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, - president of the Safe Deposit and Trust
Company of Pittsburgh.
224 Foster Farmhouse; Inglec’ote ca 1733, remodeled ca 1880 and ca 1890
- A 1½-story, flank-gable-roof, center-entrance Colonial dwelling
altered into a "Swiss Chalet" in the late 19th century. The Tictorian
alterations include a new gable roof, with a helicurve flare on the
front slope and deep overhanging eaves; a wraparound veranda partly
screened in recessed under the flaring slope; a stickwork balcony
with stick supports and liracework in one gahle end; a large central
front ga hi e con t.a in i ng a hay window; and gah I ed do tine rs w i thi s ti.c k -work
in the peaks. ‘‘lie original part of the house was huift for the
Foster family, one of the first to settI eat Watch Hill . The house
was later the center of the prope rty known as the Everett Farm, and
was remodel ed into its present form about the t ime the farm was sub -
divided into house lots -
225 The Wigwam, Rosemont, now Redlac ca 1890, altered 1900: A
1½-story structure comprising an M-gahle-roof main block with
sidiary shed- and hip-roof appendages. The roof mass overhang
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