123 Ocean Avenue (Newport, Rhode Island)

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House (ca 1955):
An interesting and unusual 1- and 2-story, low-hip-roof, shingled, splayed-V plan, 3- part composition built into the organized as interlocking hexagonal-plan pavilions with poured-concrete foundation, asymmetrical massing and fenestration including casement and plate-glass windows, large brick hexagonal-plan chimney at the center of the center pavilion, small chimney at the south end of the 2-story south pavilion, and 2-stall garage to the east of the main block and connected to it with a roofed drive-through passage; the 2nd story of the southernmost pavilion is a later addition.

The informally landscaped grounds include an in-ground pool located immediately southwest of the main block, to which it is carefully integrated.

This house is very much in the spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian houses from the late 1930s through mid-1950s. (1 contributing building; 1 contributing site)