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United States Department of the Interior
National Park Service -
National Register of Historic Places
Inventory-Nomination Form
Continuation sheet 33 Item number 7
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_- 132 Columbia Street C. 1865:
Small 1-1/2-story, L-plan, cross-gabled, clapboard cottage
with side porch now enclosed. C
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130 Columbia Street c. 1880:
/ Cross-gabled, 2-story L-plan clapboard house with verge
board, bay window. C
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- 128 Columbia Street, northwest corner Church Street, the Schmidt
Cottage c. 1875
Flank-gable, 1-1/2-story cottage with altered porch across -
front, major addition being heavily reworked in 1986 on side.
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- Columbia Road, northeast corner Church Street, Peace Dale
Congregational Church 1870-72/1895/1958: -
This delightful, vaguely Gothic, stone church was Rowland
Hazard Ii’s most ambitious undertaking as a amateur architect,
and distinctly the product of an autodidact with very distinctive’
tastes see photo #5. He not only designed the building, he
supervj.sed the work and paid for its construction. The program
is complex: the church proper, with entrance porch; an attached
bell tower, also with an entrance; and a Sunday School Wing in
the rear, also with an entrance. The building is gray granite -
rubble, like the, mills, and has slate roofs patterned in bands of
pale gray, dark-gray, and red. The sanctuary has a broad,
chalet-like gable roof with verge boards pierced in quatrefoil
pattern. The twin- gables of the main entrance porch, as well as
of the slightly set-back tower entrance repeat the form and
detail of the sanctuary gable. Decoratively handled, monitorlike
vents on the ridge enliven the skyline, and there is a cross
at the peak of the front gable end. The major feature of the
entrance elevation is a rose window of particularly complex
pattern which, according to Hazard’s daughter Caroline, gave his
country carpenters much trouble. Set to one side, the nearly
free-standing square tower has a large belfry with round-arch,
louvered openings and, above, clock faces. The tower terminates
in a tall, octagonal spire finished in banded slatework.