25 Price's Neck Road (Newport, Rhode Island)

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House (ca 19):

Occupying most of Price’s Neck on a 23-acre seaside parcel, with direct access to the water on all sides except that portion to the northwest occupied by Rockledge to the northwest (see entry immediately above), this property has two houses. The main house, located on an east-facing cove overlooking the ocean near the south end of the neck, is a rambling 100-foot-wide, low-stone- foundation, shingled house with a staggered-cruciform-plan, 21⁄2-story, cross-gable-roof main block at its north end, an L-plan, 11⁄2-story, cross-gable-roof ell to the south of the main block, and a 11⁄2-story, end- gable-roof, 2-stall garage to the south attached to the ell with a 1-story connector; windows, mostly 6- over-6 and plate-glass, are asymmetrically arranged on all elevations, and 4 brick chimneys rise from the roof, 2 on the west slope of the main block, 1 on the ridgeline of the ell, and 1 on the west side of the ell.

The property’s 2nd house, located near the property’s northwest edge just south of a north-facing inlet on Price’s Cove, is a 11⁄2-story Cape Cod house with principal entrance in an ell that extends southeast at an obtuse angle from the south end of the house’s east elevation, a 1-story, T-plan ell that extends north from the north end of the house’s east elevation, asymmetrically arranged double-hung and casement windows, and stone chimneys that rise at the reentrant angle between the main block and the north ell and near the south end of the main block’s ridgeline; a 2-stall, end-gable-roof garage stands immediately west of this house.

Approximately 100 yards east of this house is a formal garden, approximately 120 feet wide by 90 feet deep, enclosed within a tall clipped hedge and entered on the north and south through round-arch gates within the hedge; a circular-plan fountain is at the center. A greenhouse is immediately east of the formal garden. (3 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, 1 contributing site)

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Coordinates:   41°27'8"N   71°20'17"W

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  • The main house was called "Sea Cove" or "The Fo'Castle." It was built between 1893-1898 for a William Murray. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (Ocean Drive Historic District #83). The original vacant land was first owned by John Noble Alsop Griswold (until @ 1893) and then by Robert Lenox Kennedy who must have sold the property to Murray.
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