Pen Craig Cottage (Newport, Rhode Island)

 house, place with historical importance, cottage

Pen Craig Cottage (ca 1860):

A large, 2½-story, cross-gable-roof house with uncoursed stone foundation, principal entrance with sidelights and transom light near the center of the north elevation at the east end of a porch that wraps around the 1st story’s northwest corner, bay windows on the west elevation, 6-over-6 windows with bracketed projecting lintels, bracketed cornice, and 2 prominent brick chimneys on the ridgeline. A handsome picket fence lines the property along the street.

Built on speculation by Edward King, who owned much of the land in this area, it was by 1870 owned by George F. Jones, father of Edith Wharton, and used as an ancillary building to Pen Craig (now demolished)
across the street.

Pen Craig Cottage (now called Quail Tree House), Edith Wharton's early home in Newport. (see also 'Land's End)