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NPS Form Ia-BOO-i en,- 10-31-U
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United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service
National Register of Historic Places
Inventory-Nomination Form -
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- Off Broad Rock Road, The Acorns c. 1850/1881-82/1894-95:
The Acorns is set well off highway on a private lane running
back into the woods; the Hazards titled it "Roy’s Road." The
house is a large, shingle-clad, Queen Anne- style frame dwelling,
2-1/2-stories, very complex and picturesque in form, with a
profusion of piazzas, porche’s, porte cochere and balconies,
elaborated gables. diverse dormers, and rugged stone chimneys.
It has a complex history. The earliest portion was a modest midnineteenth-century
cottage located off Kingstown Road and used by
the Hazard family primarily as a quest house, It belonged to
Rowland Hazard II in the early 1880s and he had the house greatly
enlarged and embellished as a residence for his newly married
son, Rowland G. Hazard ii. The result likely reflects both his
own ideas and the effort of his frequent collaborator, architect
Frank W. Angell. After Rowland 0. Hazard II took possession of
and rebuilt another dwelling on Hazard property, Holly House,
Rowland Hazard II had The Acorns moved to its present location
and substantially reworked in 1894-95 for his newly married
daughter, Helen Hazard Bacon. The work executed in 1894-95 is
known to be by Frank Angell. The name "The Acorns" derives from
the fact that this house is "offspring" of Rowland Hazard II’s
house, "Oakwood." In about 1910, the Bacons added a studio #70
to The Acorns property.
The Acorns is the easternmost of what were six adjoining
Hazard family residences ringing the south shore of Saugatucket
Pond. Next west was Caroline Hazard’s house, the Scallop Shell,
which was made into a nursing home in 1948 and then demolished to
make way for a new nursing facility. To the northwest stood
"Oakwoods" and "Holly House" -- the greatest of the family houses
and both demolished in 1948 to make-way for a residential
subdivision. Next west and still standing is "The Cottage" also
known as the "Hazard Homestead", #17 and, on the opposite side
of the mill dam, Lily Pads #15. C -
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542 Kingstown Road c. 1860:
This is a very fine example of a simple Downingesque
cottage. Moved to this location, the house is a 1-1/2-story
clapboard structure with a 3-bay, end-gable street elevation; the
rear portion of the structure is cross gabled. The broad eaves
are carried on jackrafters and the windows and doors have
shingled hoods. C -