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United States Department <strong>of</strong> the Interior<br />
<strong>National</strong> Park Service For NI’S us. only<br />
<strong>National</strong> <strong>Register</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Historic</strong> <strong>Places</strong> received -<br />
Inventory-Nomination Form<br />
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architects for commissions, usually but not always-from the patrons’ inome<br />
towns. Among the architects who worked at Watch lull were people dis -<br />
tinguished in their own localities and those <strong>of</strong> national reputation, to<br />
gether with some whose backgrounds cannot he readily traced. The. list<br />
includes William John Cherry <strong>of</strong> New York; Gardner, Pyne Gardner <strong>of</strong><br />
Springfield, Massachusetts; F. F. Gilbert <strong>of</strong> New York; Edward I. Hinkie <strong>of</strong><br />
Philadelphia; Warrington C. Lawrence; Henry IV. Wilkinson <strong>of</strong> Syracuse, New<br />
York; Greenleaf { Cohh <strong>of</strong> Boston; George Keller, one <strong>of</strong> tine Foremost an<br />
ciltects <strong>of</strong> Hartford, Connecticut; Tracey Magonigle <strong>of</strong> New York; Mott B.<br />
Schmidt, a New York society archi tect well known in the l9lOs and I 920s<br />
tVil Ii a.m Ralph Emerson <strong>of</strong> Boston ; Grosvenor Atterhury and John A. Tonnpk ins<br />
<strong>of</strong> New York; Wilson Eyre <strong>of</strong> Philadelphia; and john Russell Pope.<br />
Though the custom <strong>of</strong> seasonal migration that spawned Watch 11111’s de<br />
velopment has changed since the turn <strong>of</strong> the century, tine area survives today<br />
as a inni xed ne ghborhooc1 o.f year - round i nilahi tants wi tin a cons i dc rahl e number<br />
<strong>of</strong> summer residents from greater New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and<br />
Washington, i.C. Watch Hill is a remarkably well preserved historical com<br />
munity notable for its architectural and environmental quality and its<br />
evocation <strong>of</strong> an important phase in American social history.