Harborview Barn and Garage (Newport, Rhode Island)

 house, place with historical importance, garage, barn, apartments

 Upload a photo

Harborview Barn and Garage (ca 1920):

An ample and imposing stone-foundation 11⁄2-story, T-plan shingled building. The main block is the 7-bay-façade, center-entrance base of the T with the sidelight- flanked principal entrance within a console-bracket-supported end-gable pavilion projecting slightly from the wall surface, 6-over-6 windows, 5 console-bracket-supported gabled dormers with traceried round-arch windows near the lower edge of the roof, brick chimney centered on the north elevation, and octagonal cupola with attenuated copper finial atop a square base centered on the ridgeline. The 11⁄2- story secondary block, the top of the T, is lower than the main block and more simply detailed, with simple pedimented dormers.

This housed vehicles 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; by 1960 it had been divided into apartments. (See also 2 and 8 Brenton)