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United States Department <strong>of</strong> the Interior<br />

<strong>National</strong> Park Service For UPS use only<br />

<strong>National</strong> <strong>Register</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Historic</strong> <strong>Places</strong><br />

- Inventory-Nomination Form<br />

received<br />

dateentered<br />

Continuation sheet 44 item number 7 Page 45<br />

inset Avenue cont. - -<br />

dormer is fronted by a semi-octagonal bay topped with a semi-conical<br />

ro<strong>of</strong>. There is a semi-circular, lattice-enclosed porch on the rear<br />

<strong>of</strong> the rear ell. The first story has been covered with aluminum<br />

siding but the remainder <strong>of</strong> the house is shingled, with staggeredbutt<br />

patterning in the gable ends. The house was built for Mrs. E.B.<br />

Harvey.<br />

VALLEY PATH -<br />

199 Sunnyridge 1903: A 2½-story, rectangular-block, white-painted<br />

shingle, English Cottage-style dwelling covered with a hip ro<strong>of</strong> with<br />

extended side slopes. It has a recessed central entrance under a<br />

hip-ro<strong>of</strong> hood on brackets; a recessed, corner sun porch on one end;<br />

hipped dormers; and brackets accenting the eaves. It was built for<br />

Mrs. C. Richmond Parsons <strong>of</strong> Providence. -<br />

t PUN ROAD<br />

200 Stone Leigh 1915: A large 3½-story, rectangular-block dwelling<br />

with a massive N-gable roo.f containing its third story and attic.<br />

it, is set so the ro<strong>of</strong> is oriented gable-flank to the street, with<br />

a large gabled dormer in the front slope and shed dormers filling<br />

the valley <strong>of</strong> the ‘N." The house has a 2-story side wing with a<br />

low-pitch hip ro<strong>of</strong>, and a stone post, gabled portico sheltering the<br />

<strong>of</strong>f-center entrance. The house was, probably built for the Curtis<br />

family and was once occupied by Rebekah Harkness, director <strong>of</strong> the<br />

- Harkness Ballet see number 49<br />

NC 201 Windrose Cottage 1955; T. Frederick Norton <strong>of</strong> Mystic, Connecticut,<br />

architect: A picturesque 1½-story, flank-gable-ro<strong>of</strong>, clapboard Cape<br />

Cod-type cottage with a projecting garage wing at’ one front corner.<br />

202 Meadowcrest ca 1916; attributed to William John Cherry <strong>of</strong> New York,<br />

architect: An asymmetrical 2½-story dwelling distinguished by its<br />

complex ro<strong>of</strong> mass. The main ro<strong>of</strong> is hipped in form with extended<br />

side slopes, intersected by a cross-jerkin-head unit near one end <strong>of</strong><br />

the building. There are shed and jerkin-head dormers in the side<br />

slopes and shed dormers in the long flanks <strong>of</strong> the main hip ro<strong>of</strong><br />

the pr<strong>of</strong>ile <strong>of</strong> the roo F has been changed slightly by later altera -<br />

- tions. The main entrance is located in one end <strong>of</strong> the cross-jerkin<br />

head ro<strong>of</strong> section. The fenestration is asymmetrical, with a pent<br />

ro<strong>of</strong> on brackets over some first-story windows. On the water front<br />

<strong>of</strong>. the house, the lawn is terraced, with a stone retaining wall in<br />

corporating buttresses and sections <strong>of</strong> arcading. The house was<br />

See Continuation Sheet #45

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