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- CUB NO 1024-0018<br />

NPS Form 10-900-a - Exp- 10-31-84<br />

3-82 P<br />

United States Department of the Interior<br />

<strong>National</strong> <strong>Park</strong> <strong>Service</strong> -<br />

-<br />

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

Inventory-Nomination Form<br />

Continuation sheet 11 -<br />

- Item number 7 - Page 12<br />

dam is a small picturesque shingled building probably designed<br />

by Rowland Hazard II housing the penstocks which control the<br />

flow of water from the pond into the headrace. This power trench<br />

is a placid canal surrounded by dense woods and paralleled by<br />

"Water Way,". the beautiful entry drive laid out in 1888 by<br />

- landscape architect Charles Eliot leading from Kingstown Road - -<br />

back into the Hazard Compound. C<br />

- 17<br />

49-1/ 75<br />

North off Kingstown Road, The Cottage/Hazard Homestead c. 1790<br />

et seq.: -<br />

This secluded 12-acre estate at the southeast end of<br />

Saugatucket Pond is largely hidden from the road by the Hazard<br />

Memorial #38. The land and much added-to and Colonial<br />

Revivalized 1-1/2 story, gambrel-roofed cottage were part of<br />

Rowland Hazard I’s original Peace Dale purchase of 1804-05, sold<br />

to him by Benjamin Rodman. Generations of Hazards lived here<br />

until 1969. The site includes "Water Way" and a portion of the<br />

Peace Dale water power system see #16. It was on this<br />

property in the 1850s that Rowland Gibson Hazard erected a Gothic<br />

Revival dwelling which his nephew, Rowland G. Hazard II,<br />

aggrandized into a Tudor style mansion, Holly House, designed by<br />

McKim, Mead & White in 1892; it was demolished in 1948. See<br />

#71. C<br />

- /<br />

18 -<br />

49-1/81 /<br />

off Kingstown Road, behind Hazard Memorial, R. C. Hazard<br />

Estate Outbuilding c. 1880:<br />

This 1-1/2-story clapboard cottage has a distinctive bellcast<br />

gambrel roof. C<br />

19 - -<br />

49-4/154 - -<br />

689 Kingstown Road c. 1900:<br />

- Small 2-story, hip-roofed commercial/residential building.<br />

- A bookshop occupies the altered first floor. The building is<br />

- adjacent to the former Narragansett Pier Railroad right-of-way; a<br />

high trestle which carried the tracks over Kingstown Road has<br />

recently been demolished. C<br />

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