Harborview Service Building (Newport, Rhode Island)

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Harborview Service Building (ca 1920):

A poured-concrete-foundation, brick 11⁄2-story house with a tripartite composition of main block flanked on each side by lower symmetrical wings: the main block has a sidelight-flanked center entrance flanked by tripartite windows on either side, and both entrance and windows are set within keystone-crowned low-elliptical relieving arches linked by a stringcourse just below the springing line; three pedimented dormers are centered above the 1st story arches, and chimneys are at each end of the ridgeline. The southern wing has a center entrance flanked by a tripartite window to its north and a paired window to its south; the northern wing has 2 double-leaf vehicular entrances. A 1-story ell extends east from the center of the east elevation, at rear.

This was originally an as-yet-unidentified-use service building for Harborview, the early 20th-century home of Ellen Tuck French FitzSimmons (1881-1948), located on the west side of Chastellux Avenue south of Wellington Avenue. (See also 2 and 4 Brenton)