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National Register of Historic Places
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Continuation sheet 47 Item number 7 Page 48
Wauwinnet Avenue cont.
212 Bóuldercrest ca 1890: A 2½-story vernacular Queen Anne dwelling
i t h a 3 -story, octagonal, conical-roof corner tower set in the angle
between the house’s end-gabled ma in block and a gabled side projec
tion. A wraparound veranda has a diagonal end-gabled unit
at the base of the tower. There is a 2-story rear addition
projecting
covered
by a low-pitch hip roof. A tail Ui-story, gable-roof cottage with
jigsawn bargeboard trim stands on the property and was probably
originally an outbuilding. The house was built for the Reverend
William A. Snively of Louisville, Ken tucky, 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 enclos ed , a front
gable overhang, and shed dormers. It was built for C incinnati
bus ines sman Hines Strobridge.
214 Wetumanetu
story, hipfirst
story
shaped vera
proj ection
‘balcony,
Chainplin
I STERLY ROAD
1899;
roof,
and a
nda n
in the
Henry W. Wilkinson of Syra
cubical -mass Shingle Style
shingle-clad second story.
ow partly enclosed., a cent
center of the second story
and’ eyebrow dorniers . ‘[he house was
of Westerly. Its Indian name means
215 Russula, now Tredegar 1900; Chapman
A Modern Colonial dwell ing with a mass
big’ its second story and attic. It is set end to the
front gambrel end projecting over paired bay windows.
dormers in the flanks of the gambrel. The house was
property by Maxson Company of Westerly For a Dr. Me
occupied at one time by Frederick Brooks of New York
dent of Brooks Brothers see number 155
cuse archi tect’ : A 2hhouse
with a rubble- stone
It has a recessed, Ural
entrance, a slight
that contains a rece’s:ed
hu il t for Dr. John
"Medicine Man’s House."
Fraser of Boston, architects:
ive flank-gambrel roof containstreet
with its
There are shed
built as a rental
rrill.
City,
It was
vice presi
216 Red ‘hop 1900; Chapman f Fraser of Boston, architects: An asym
metrical Modern Colonial dwelling with a complex roof. One section
of the house has a massive gambrel roof containing the second story
and attic, with a shed dormer along one side that continues to form
part of a gable roof covering an eli. Tli e house has asymmetrical
fenestration, including an oriel window; a massive exterior chimney
on one flank; and a hip-roof dormer. It was bui lt by Maxson G COmpany
of Westerly as a rental property for Dr. Merrill. The house was first
occupied by Miss [‘[.C. Frick of Pittsburgh and later by Truman H.
Newberry of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan a prominent Detroit
See Continuation Sheet #48