378 Spring Street (ca 1861) (Newport, Rhode Island)

 house, place with historical importance, Gothic revival (architecture)

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(ca 1861, perhaps earlier) A 1½-story, 3-bay-façade, center-entrance cross-gable-roof house with a parged foundation, full-width 1-story braced-post paired-bracket-cornice front porch, sidelight-flanked principal entrance, floor-length windows flanking the principal entrance, shingled side elevations, 4-over-4 and 6-over-6 windows, 1-story ell at rear, central cross gable above the entrance with prominent round-arch window, pierced bargeboards in central cross gable, bracketed eaves and raking cornices, and ridgeline chimney to the north. In the late 19th century, farmer John A.C. Stacy, who lived on Bowery Street, owned probably as investments this property and the ones adjacent at numbers 374 and 382 (q.v.). This is a fine, typical, but rare-for-Rhode-Island Gothic cottage, in the mode of Andrew Jackson Downing; its form was most popular in the mid-years of the 19th century, and this may well have been built elsewhere earlier and moved here.
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