Lawnfield (ca 1860 et seq.) (Newport, Rhode Island)

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Lawnfield (ca 1860 et seq.):

A large and rambling 2½- and 4-story house with a core dating at least to the mid-19th century. The core is a 2½-story, 5-bay-façade, center entrance building with stone foundation, 6-over-1 windows, bracketed eaves cornices, and one off-center chimney on the ridgeline. At the west end of the south elevation is a large addition, with a square-plan 4-story, 2-tier tower with round-arch windows, bracketed stringcourse between the 3rd and 4th stories, bracketed cornice, hip roof, and chimney above its west elevation. Across the front of the core is a full-width, 1-story bracketed porch that extends beyond the west elevation of the core to a 1-story flat-roof section to the east of the tower; a square-plan, high-hip-roof, paired-column-supported, high-hip-roof porte-cochère is attached to the porch opposite the principal entrance.

The house is set side to Harrison Avenue, well back from the street on an ample, well-landscaped lawn with specimen trees and shrubs.

This is the layout of the original estate. The eastern part of the grounds have been subdivided. The main house still stands to the west of the grounds.