Moon Watch (2000) (Newport, Rhode Island)

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Moonwatch, the Jane R. Grace House (2000, The Newport Collaborative, architects):

Prominently sited NC atop a rock outcropping, a 11⁄2-story, L-plan Neo-Shingle-Style house with poured-concrete foundation, concave-semicircular-plan façade with principal entrance at the apex of the curve, regularly spaced 6- over-1 windows on the façade, French doors on the south elevation overlooking the terrace, 3-story octagonal-plan ogee-curved-roof tower at the southern corner (opposite the principal entrance), banded- wood-shingle roof with gable at the east end and high hip at the north end, and 3 round-arch-panel-and- corbel chimneys, 2 on the ridgeline and 1 at the north end of the west elevation.

Very much within the tradition of Newport’s late 19th century domestic architecture, this house is highly site specific; like other contemporaries in the vicinity, and somewhat in contrast with its early 20th-century neighbors, this house seeks the high ground better to exploit the fine views. While this house does not contribute to the significance of the district because it falls outside the period of significance, it nevertheless is consistent in type, form, scale, and setting with those properties that create the district’s significance.