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center, hip-roof attic dormer. Later additions include a shorter
2½-story, flank-gable side wing and an enclosed, 1-story polygonal
pavilion on one end of the rear veranda. The side addition projects
forward slightly from the main block and contains a subsidiary front
entrance sheltered by a gable-roof, latticework portico. Old photo
graphs reveal that the house has been slightly changed by alterations
that have eliminated some quasi-medieval Queen Anne elements to give
the building a more straightforward Colonial character. The house
was built for Miss E. 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 Wawaloam after
a famous Narragansett squaw sachem.
22.3 The IVickiup ca 1890 with later additions: An asymmetrical, 2½story,
hip-roof dwelling with a gabled side pavilion, a wraparound
veranda surmounted- by a halustraded balcony, oriel windows, and a
variety of dormers, including hipped and eyebrow dormers and a long
side dormer with gabled end units linked by a flat-roof section.
The gable of the side pavilion contains an arched window set in an
embrasure with curving, shingled edges. There is a modern 2-story,
gable-roof addition on the side opposite the side pavilion, linked
to the main block by a 1-story hyphen. The house was built for
Mrs. Clara H. Stanton and was later the house of J. Denniston Lyon
of Sewickley, Pennsylvania,’ president of the Safe Deposit and Trust
Company of Pittsburgh.
224 Foster Farmhouse; Inglecote 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 Victorian
alterations include a new gable roof, with a hellcurve 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 bracework in one gable end; a large central
Front gable containing a bay window; and gabled dormers with stickwork
in the peaks. The original part of the house was built for the
Foster family, one of the First to settle at Watch Hill . The house
was later the center of the property known as the Everett Farm, and
was remodeled into its present form about the time the Farm was suh -
* divided into house lots.
225 The Wigwam, Rosemont, now Redlac ca 1890, altered 1900: A sprawling
1½-story structure comprising an M-gable-roof main block with sub
sidiary shed- and hip-roof appendages. The roof mass overhangs the
See Continuation Sheet I/SO