494 Thames (1930) (Newport, Rhode Island)

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House (1930): A narrow-and-deep 2-story, rock-face-concrete-block, low-hip-roof house with a concrete foundation, center entrance flanked by square 8-over-8 windows, two symmetrically placed 6-over-1 windows on the façade’s second story, and a small chimney on the south slope of the roof. Inexpensively built of utilitarian materials, this modest house, as an example of new construction, speaks significantly of the desuetude into which Thames Street, this neighborhood, and, indeed, much of Newport had lapsed in the second quarter of the 20th century. As such, preservation of its still-unaltered condition is all the more important, especially in contrast to the elaborate and soi-disant stylish redevelopment that characterizes so much of the late 20th-century development in this precinct.
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