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NPS Form 10-900-i ElD- 10-31-U
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United States Department of the Interior - -
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National Register of Historic Places
lnventoi’y-Nomination Form -
Continuation sheet 38 - Item number 7
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a trained teacher, Miss Anna Schliepstein, brought her to
America, and opened Stepping Stone Kindergarten in a building on
the Hazard estate grounds that September. After Mrs. Hazard’s
death in 1895, the school was sustained by her daughter Caroline
Hazard, a noted educator who in 1899 became president of
wellesley College. Miss Hazard built the present schoolhouse and
continued to operate the kindergarten, entirely at her own -
expense, as a Hazard benefaction until her death in 1945. Since
then this has been a public kindergarten. C
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7 Spring Street, the E.F. Hazard Cottage C. 1875:
This clapboard, L-plan, 1-1/2-story cross-gabled cottage is
rather more elaborate in treatment than most of the many other
-‘ examples of this type in Peace -Dale. A broad bay window flanks
the entrance. The porch fronting the lateral kitchen ell has
been glassed-in. There are a pair of roundhead windows in the
gable. C - -
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5 Spring Street, the D. W. Hoxie House- c. 1885:
Somewhat altered, 2-1/2-story, end-gable Queen Anne dwelling
-with a recessed entrance beside a shallow, broad bay window. C
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Spring Street, northeast corner Church Street 1865:
7- Typical company-built, L-plan, cross-gabled, 1-1/2-story
clapboard cottage, here with a large bay window on the south
Church Street end. The lateral kitchen ell has a bracketed
porch. This is one of four such cottages erected by- the Peace
Dale Mahufacturing Company in 1865: according to a Providence
Journal story published December 28th each cost an average of
$1,40Q see #‘s 138, 139, 140. C
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8-lAmos Street c. 1875:
Flank-gable, 5-bay, 1-1/2-story cottage with central
- entrance in side elevation; set end-wise to street with big bay
window in the street end. This house may have been moved to this
-site. C
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