Hawkhurst - Section 3 (Newport, Rhode Island)

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Caroline M. Seymour House fragment (1882-84 et seq.; Dudley Newton, architect): A shingled Queen Anne house with a 2½-story main block, a 3-story hip-roof wing extending from the main block’s northwest corner, a 1-story porch at the northeast re-entrant angle between main block and wing, and a flat-roof 2-story ell at the rear of the main block. The main block has a parged foundation, almost-full-width turned-post-and-parapet hip-roof front porch, 2-story square-plan bay window set diagonally on the northeast corner, asymmetrically and irregularly arranged single and grouped windows of varying configurations (including 2-over-2, 12-over-1, 10-over-2, and fixed-multiple panes), stringcourse between 1st and 2nd story, a large shed-roof dormer above the façade, and a chimney near the ridgeline at
the south end of the roof’s north slope. The similarly articulated northwest ell also has a large semi-octagonal-plan bay window at the south end of its west elevation. This is a fragment of a much larger house, originally facing Kay Street, that was divided into four buildings in the 1930s. It originally was a wing of the original house and extended north and west from the section now at 66 Kay Street (q.v.); the other
remnants are at 66, 68, and 70 Kay Street