Hazard's Beach (Newport, Rhode Island)

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Hazard’s Beach (ca 1955):

A 7-acre beachfront recreational property with a large clubhouse/cabana complex, an ample parking lot to the east of the building, and a wide, deep, sandy beach to the south of the building. The clubhouse/cabana complex has a square-plan, low-gable-on-hip-roof, 5-bay-façade, center-entrance central pavilion with a delicate Regencyesque concave-hip-roof porch on the façade and an open full-width porch across the rear. Flanking the central pavilion to the east and west are 6 parallel and closely serried low-end-gable-roof pavilions with 6 cabana units on each of their east and west elevations.

This beach has been used recreationally since at least the 1850s, when the first “bathing- houses” (as the Newport Mercury described them) were built here. (2 contributing elements: 1 building, 1 site)