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‘4P S I Olin O-’1OO-l OMFI II" 1124-00111 302 0- 10-31-114 United States Department ol the Interior National Park Service - For NI’S use only National Register of Historic Places received - Inventory-Nomination Form Continuation sheet 54 Item number 7 Page 55 Yosemite Valley Road cent. 245 Ciarmar, also White House ca 1900 with later alterations; Warrington G. Laurence of Detroit, architect : An imposing 2½-story, hip-roof, - high-style Colonial Revival dwelling trimnned with pilasters and modil lion cornices. its front veranda now glazed with porte-cochere extension is topped by a Chinese Chippendale roof balustrade al tered from its original form with balusters and has a central, curved, Tuscan-column proj ection in front of a shallow central entrance pavi lien. ihe entrance pavilion is topped by a pediment contain ing an ocul us. This pediment is flanked on each side hy a pedmmented do rifler containing an arched window - Pa ired exte ri or end chimneys constructed of rubhlestone are the only features that do not conform with the sophisticated nco-classical design of the building, which now has extensive rear additions. The house was built for William G Clark of Newark and later became the property of Chauncey G. Parker, a prominent attorney who practiced in Newark and Washington, D.C. 246 Ibeuse early 20th century: An asymnnetrical , 1½-story, cross-gabte roof stone and shingle cottage with a glass greenhouse wing. It was probably built as the gardner’s cottage for Clarmar see number 243 - NC 247 I-house early 20th century with later alterations: A low 1-story, hip- roof, stucco dwelling with a garage incorporated into its mass. It resembles a mid-2Oth-century ranch-type tract house hut was probably built as a garage and chauffeur’s cottage for one of the large houses nearby. It is now a private residence -
8. Significance - - -- Period Areas of Significance--Check and juslify below - prehistoric - archeology-prehistoric X community planning nandscape architecture religion 1400-1499 archeonogy-historic conservation law science 1500-i 599 agriculture economics literature sculpture - - 1600-1699 architecture education military x social; X 1700-1799 art engineering - music humanitarian X - 1800-1899 - - commerce exploration-settlement philosophy - - theater X 1900- communications industry politics government transportation invention - - other specity Specific dates -- - BuilderArchitect Statement of Significance in one paragraph Watch Hill is significant as a well preserved example of a late nine teenth- and early - twentieth -century summer resort, reflecting the popula ri - zation of vacations dustrial life. The during village that period as an-aspect of modern urban in is a manifestation of modes of socialization and concepts of leisure, recreation, and even health care that evolved in the Victorian era - The buildings in the Watch Hill Historic District dt’cu ment the area’s transformation from an agrarian community to a summer re sort. They are notable for- their degree of visual unity and compatibility and their skillful integration into the landscape. Certain sections of the village, laid out in the picturesque, fluid manner first adopted for the design of rural cemeteries and suburbs, stand as a good example of one type - of nineteenth-century community planning. Watch Hill joins Newport and Narragansett as the three chief exemplars in Rhode island of the summer - resort movement. Narragansett, though larger than Watch liii I, is less in tact, with much of its historical fabric destroyed hy fires, storms, and urban renewal. Among Rhode Island summer resorts today, Watch Hill is second only to Newport in its environmental character and the. ar chi tectinral qual ity of its constituent buildings. The strategic importance of the Watch Hill region was recognized I :om an early date. The Niantic indians reputedly used the area as a lookout in the early seventeenth century, to watch for attack parties of Montanip’ Indjans - In the 1740s a watch post was established on the highest knoll here by the colony of Rhode Tsland during King George’s War. These activi ties are memorialized today in the name of the community. The first European settlement at Watch Hill came in the i660s, when present-day Washington County, Rhode Island, was known as the King’s Province - a territory claimed by Rhode ls-land, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. lii 1662 the Massachusetts Bay Colony granted 500 acres on the easterly side of the Pequot Pawcatuck River to Captain Daniel Gooki.n , encompassing the Watch Hill peninsula. Captain Gookin erected a dwelling on the property for a tenant -farmer. Through the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, the property changed hands and was eventually subdivided. For the nest part, however, it remained in large tracts owned by only a few families - Among the early landholders were the Hannah and the Pendleton families. By the late eighteenth century, the area southwesterly of the Syndicate Line see district map and definition below had been divided into twelve lots, con sol idated in the possession of the Poster and Willcox families. Two eigh teenth-century censuses list three heads of households residing at Watch Hill: Jonathan Foster, Jonathan Foster, Jr., and Hezekiah Willcox in 1774; See Continuation Sheet #55
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