Althorp Cottage (c. l895) - Founders Hall (Newport, Rhode Island)

 university, place with historical importance, cottage, villa, Colonial Revival (architecture)

c.l895. Colonial Revival. Two-and-one-half stories, decked hip roof, clapboard wall cover; regularly- spaced windows; central south entrance within one-story porch; rounded projecting bays at each end of south elevation.

This Colonial Revival house, with its welcoming, wraparound veranda, was the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. John Thompson Spencer. A prominent Philadelphia lawyer, Mr. Spencer was active in turn-of-the-century plans for the improvement of Newport's public spaces. The architectural firm of Peabody and Stearns adapted formal Georgian details like pedimented dormer windows, a fan light entrance and roof trim to the informal ambiance of a seaside villa. It was purchased by the university in 1964.

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