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Form No. 10-300 IRev. 10-74 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM FORNPSUSEONLY RECE{VEQ DATE ENTERED UNAME HISTORIC SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN How TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS _____ TYPE ALL ENTRIES-- COMPLETE APPLICABLE_SECTIONS STATE Rhode flLOCATION OF.LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE. REGISTRYOFDEEDS.ETC, North Kingstown Town. Hall STREET & NUMBER 80 Boston N eck Road . . CITY. TOWN STATE . North Kingstown . . Rhode Island flREPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS TItLE .. DATE . . ....STATE DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS . - CITY. TOWN . STATE AND/OR COMMON - Douglas George House . . flLOCATION . . STREET& NUMBER Tower Hill Road at Gilbert Stuart Road CITY. TOWN . CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT North Kings town .......-VICINITY OF STATE CODE Rhode Island 02874 . I4 COUNTY CODE Washington 009 fiCLASSIFICATION . . . . CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENT USE X.OCCUPIED .BUILDINGSI .KPRIVATE ...STRUCTURE IN PROGRESS .PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE . PROCESS RESTRICTED CONSIDERED UNRESTRICTED çNO flOWNER-OF PROPERTY NAME Mr. and Mrs. Earle D. Taber . STREET& NUMBER . Tower Hill Road at Gilbert Stuart Road . CITY. TOWN North Kingstown - VICINITY OF Island 0287

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Form No. 10-300 IRev. 10-74

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNATIONAL PARK SERVICE

NATIONAL REGISTEROFHISTORIC PLACESINVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM

FORNPSUSEONLY

RECE{VEQ

DATE ENTERED

UNAMEHISTORIC

SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN How TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS

_____

TYPE ALL ENTRIES-- COMPLETE APPLICABLE_SECTIONS

STATE

Rhode

flLOCATION OF.LEGAL DESCRIPTIONCOURTHOUSE.

REGISTRYOFDEEDS.ETC, North Kingstown Town. HallSTREET & NUMBER

80 Boston N eck Road. .

CITY. TOWN STATE .

North Kingstown . . Rhode Island

flREPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYSTItLE ..

DATE . .

....STATE

DEPOSITORY FOR

SURVEY RECORDS .

- CITY. TOWN . STATE

AND/OR COMMON -

Douglas George House.

.

flLOCATION . .

STREET& NUMBERTower Hill Road at Gilbert Stuart Road

CITY. TOWN . CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

North Kings town .......-VICINITY OF

STATE CODERhode Island 02874 . I4

COUNTY CODE

Washington 009

fiCLASSIFICATION . . ..

CATEGORY OWNERSHIP STATUS PRESENT USE

X.OCCUPIED

.BUILDINGSI .KPRIVATE

...STRUCTURE IN PROGRESS .PRIVATE RESIDENCE

PUBLIC ACQUISITION ACCESSIBLE .

PROCESS RESTRICTED

CONSIDERED UNRESTRICTED

çNO

flOWNER-OF PROPERTYNAME Mr. and Mrs. Earle D. Taber .

STREET& NUMBER .

Tower Hill Road at Gilbert Stuart Road .

CITY. TOWN

North Kingstown - VICINITY OF Island 0287

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fl DESCRIPTION

CONDITION - - CHECK ONE CHECK ONE

AEXCELLENT _DETERIORATED XUNALTERED &ORIGINAL SITE

_GOOD _RUINS ...ALTERED _MOVEO DATE________

_FAIR _UNEXPOSED

DESCRIBE THE PRESENTAND ORIGINAL IF.KNOWN PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

The house built in 1738 by George Douglas is a compact timber-framed andclapboarded structure two-and-one-half stories high, with a gable roof and anend chimney. Set upon a mortared fieldstone foundation, it is three bays wide andthree bays deep. The massive fieldstone chimney at the north end of the house hasa fieldstone oven that protrudes on the exterior at the first floor level. On thefront of the chimney-top is aflat stone incised ‘George and Mary Douglas 1738."This great chimney, the exposed lower portion of which has a sloped, stepped topping,serves three of the original six rooms,- where there are a wide cooking-fireplacein the old kitchen, a fireplace in the front parlor, downstairs and another in theprincipal .bedchamber on the second floor.

With the exception of a pilastered and pedimented doorway at-the northern endof the west elevation, this house is devoid of exterior ornament; there are onlyplain, flat corner-boards and similarly plain fascia-boards in the gables: theprotruded six-over-nine-pane windows have flat board enframements and only a narrowstrip of board to cap them, without mouldings or cornices. Though now enlarged byrear extensions equally simple in style, the house as originally built was, nearlysquare in plan, with three rooms on each floor, a minimal basement area about 10feet by 15 feet, ‘the remainder only a "crawl-space" and a garret with one endwindow. There is a slight gabled two-story projection -- out as far about 5 feetas the great chimney-base -- at its north-east. Across part of the rear a one-storygabled kitchen -extension was made, probably in the first decades of the XIX century,while further east is a harmonious addition made in the mid:.- 1940’s. Beyond this

‘last is a plain narrow-stick trellis connecting to a late woodshed, and there is aninconspicuous modern clapboarded garage further back and to one side on the property.

The ‘house si-ta- which is about..3/4 of an acre nowJs partially enclosed by adry-laid stone wail along the east and a high stone retaining-wall across the west.On the flat, grassed area where the house stands there is a very large old roundstone well-head ‘which -is still used, and there are, some tall old trees and large andpicturesqueIy.’-spotted clumps of shrubbery. Even though a major highway runs closeto its front, the house remains’ in a somewhat rural setting, for there is stillunbuilt-upon meadow land across Gilbert Stuart Road,-to the rear of the house.

The main entrance at the north-west corner of the house, with its board-and-batten door showing two small glazed openings near its top, opens into a very smallvestibule from which itis believed a- narrow stairway, long removed, originally ranup easterly-around--- or possibly between - the flues of the chimney. From.thi.s -

vestibule a door opens south into the parlor which fills the remainder of the frontof the first floor. The .room has exposed ceiling beams, and the cornerposts areboxed by vertical planks which have thin corner beading. Here there is a wainscotof horizontal boa’rding finished with a simple rounded moulding Doors and windowsin this room, and the one-story mantel with two open cupboard spaces i-n the wallabove, haye plain but sharper architraval mouldings, and this trim appears to date

‘from ‘the latter part of the XVII I century rather than the first. half, probably

- - See Continuation Sheet 1

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* Form No. 1O-300a‘they. 10-74

UNITED STATES-DEP.ARTMENT’OF THE.INTERIORNATIONAL PARK SERVICE

NATIONAL REGISTEROF HISTORIC PLACESINVENTORY-- NOMINATION FORM

FOR NPS.USE-ONLY’’’

RECEIVED

DATE ENTERED

-______

CONTI NUATION SHEET ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 2

improvements made in the style prevailing forty or fifty years after the house hadbeen built. Behind the parlor and filling the southeastern portion of this flooris a space which was originally one room puobably a .bedchamber’but which wasfirst cut into, early, when an upward staircase was introduced between it and thekeeping-room, and which has more recently been divided -to accommodate a small sitting-annex from the parlor, a cupboard and a lavatory. The greater part of the rear ofthe 1738 house is occupied by the old keeping-room, where is the great cooking-hearth with- its heavy’ wood lintel, stone pavement and lining’ and its beehive ovenat one end which, as mentioned, forms a consjicuous projection on the exterior ofthe chimney. Here.there are exposed beams and posts and a baseboard, but. nowainscot -- all unpainted. The ceiling is of unplastered boards whitewashed betweenbeams.

The second story is reached by a narrow, straight, enclosed stairway running upwest from nearly the rear-center of the building.. This stairway terminates in a

I-century period of the house, and plaster surfaces areflooring remains on both principal stories, as it doesgarret.

The, preceding paragraphs describe the confines of ‘the 1738 house; though, asmentioned, a shallow southeasterly one-story eli was added later -- its gable-lineperpendicular to, that. ofthe..older. structu.re .. .,In.this addition, which has a small.. -

central chimney’suitable for a stove’,"the-western part served as a narrow kitchen---relieving the keeping-room of such use, and the eastern half is-said to have servedas a "milk-room" or cool jantry. today,the western part serves as a passageand sitting-area and the "milk-room" portion has been adapted as -an unobtrusivemodern kitchen-gallery. In the late 1940’s a visually compatible one-story furtherextension was made at the rear to contain bed-sitting, bathroom and wardrobeaccommodations,, and at the same time the woodshed and garage were built:

small upper landing or hall from whichExcept for a fireplace faced with bluemoulded architrave and panelled frieze,the wall beside the fireplace may mark-lower vestibule once emerged. Two srnaland, like the larger room, are withoutenframements without any mouldings. On

-- left exposed; doors have each two shallabove the small first-floor entry is athe pedimented entrance.- Upstairs andmost woodwork has been painted a soft,later XVIIwide boardunfinished

opens the principal bedchamber above the parlor.and white tiles, and the’mantel with its

the room is unornamented. Shelving set intothe place where the original stairway f,rom theler chambers also open from the stair-halltrim, having only plain board window and door

the second floor structural members areow recessed panels. Off, the main chambe? andcupboard with one high six-paned window overdown, with the exception of the keeping-room,greyed blue.appropriateto the first and/or

white.- Old,also in the

See Continuation Sheet 2

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Form No. 10-300aIRev, 10-74

UNITED STATES DEI’ARTMENTOFTHE INTERIOR FOR NPS.USE ONLY-NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

RECEIVED

NATIONAL REGISTEROF HISTORIC PLACESINVENTORY-- NOMINATION FORM DATE ENTERED -

CONTINUATION SHEET 2 ITEM NUMBER 7 PAGE 3

Through careful restoration undertaken in 1945-1948 by Judge and Mrs. Ira L. -

Letts and performed by knowledgeable local artisans, the oldest part -of the Douglashouse now appears externally as it did when constructed. The interior plan, trimand hardware remained unchanged, and sanitary and cooking conveniences were insertedwithout noticeable disturbance to arrangement or appearance. Shingles were slappedon over the original narrow clapboards, a later porch and a modern front door wereremoved and the large paned sash replaced with six-over-nine double-hung sash.Judge and Mrs. Letts later sold the house to its present occupants, Mr. and Mrs.Earle D. Taber who maintain the house and -its diminished surroundings with care.They possess a handsome collection of antique furniture, assembled over a periodof. forty years or more, which is strikingly appropriate tothe rooms in which it isplaced. . .

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XIX Cm turv XX Century -1736

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fl SIGNIFICANCE

PERIOD AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE--CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW

_PREHISTORIC ._ARcHE0LUGY-PnEHIsTonIc _COMMUNITY PLANNING _LANDScAPE ARCHITECTURE _RELIGION

_1400-1499 _ARcHE0L0GY-HIsToRIc _CONSERVATION _LAW _SCIENCE,

-.Th0O’1599 _AGRIcuLTuRE .._ECONOMIcS _LITERATURE ‘ _SCULPTURE

_1600-1699 .XARcHITECTURE _EDUCATION _MILITARY . _50cIALIHuMANITARIAN

11700-1799 ART _ENGINEERING _MUSIC _THEATER

1800-1899 _cOMMERcE . _EXPLORATION/SEITLEMENT _PHILOSOPHY , _TRANSPORTATION

_1900- _c0MMuNIcATION5 - _INDUSTRY - POLITICS/GOVERNMENT _OTHER SPECIFY_INVENTION

SPECIFIC DATES BUILDER/ARCHITECT -

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE -

The importance of the George Douglas house, in its particular locale and in thestate of Rhode Island as a whole, rests primarily in its age, its èonstruction andplan especially its chimney, and its intact condition. No historic events orpersonages of outstanding significance are known to have been associated with thehouse, although it figured in at least one incident of local interest, recorded inCatlR. Woodward’s Plantation in Vankeeland. Dr. James MacSparran, Rector of OldSt. Paul’s Episcopal Church which used to stand nearby and was entered’on theNational Register July 7, 1973 recorded in his diary entry of August 29, 1751,problems with his slave Hannibal who had been out of the house the night before.For this act of insubordination,- one in a chain of many, Dr. MacSparran had Hannibalflogged,

"upon which he ran and Harry after him as far as WilliamBrown’s. As they were returning he slipt from Harrynaked as he was above the waist. Peter and Harry foundhim toward night at Block Island Harry Gardiner’s, bro’thim Home, and then carried him to Duglasse’s where he hadwhat is, called Pothooks put about his neck . . . 0 thatGod would givemy servants’ - the Gift of..Chastity.!!

This incident is revealing of a number of aspects of 18th centurylife and society in the South County. The prosperous and culteredexistence of South County planters dependednot only on the richnessof their agricultural land, the ready availability of water transport,and their own perspicacity, but also, to some extent, on their use ofslaves. Slave-owning in South County was much less widespread, thanin the Southern colonies and the planters generally owned only smallnumbers of slaves; but slavery was a significant aspect of SouthCounty’s social’, and- economic’s-tructure ‘.one which .is’often’ overlooked.. -

Dr. Mac5parran’s attitude toward Hannibal, in the context of this‘incident and others, is indicative of his attitude toward all hisslaves. He considered them as his property to buy and sell; but atthe same time he thought of them as human beings with weaknessestobe worried about and corrected, and souls to be prayed for.

See Continuatton Sheet 3

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‘.‘Forn, No, 10-300aIRev, 10-74

UNITED STATES DLIARTMENTOFTI-IE INTERIORNATIONAL PARK SERVICE

NATIONAL ÜEGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES- INVENTORY-- NOMINATION FORM

CONTINUATION SHEET 3 ITEM NUMBER

FOR NPStJSE ONLY’ ‘, . . ,-

RECEIVED ‘ .

DATE ENTERED

8 PAGE 2

The other reference in local history to the Douglas family isa warrant for the arrest of one Jeremiah Burlingame for assault oncomplaint of Charles Douglas, descendant of George Douglas, on -

July 15, 1828. This warrant was witnessed by Daniel E. Ilpdilce, sonor grandson of Lodowick Updike, secondowner of Cocumscussocentered on the Register February 23, 1972’ and author of theoriginal platting of the village of Wickford also entered in theNational Register, December 31, 1974.

- Well-cared-for now, following a period of changes in ownershipand-a time of neglect, the George Douglas house remainssubstantiallyas he originally planned it as comfortable dwelling and as head-quarters for those agricultural enterprises in which he was engagedupon his surrounding acres. Although the acreage and the outbuildings are gone, what most importantly exists is ‘the preserveddwelling, displaying the large and projecting stone chimney whichis a typical feature of Rhode Island’s early architecture, and ofwhich there are few examples now left in the state,’ though ‘a numberof such fortunately were recorded before demolition or ruin overtook them. Here there is an impressive survivor, strongly builtfoi utilitarian purposes in 1738 and today admired for its picturesqueand historical qualities -- so much so that the late photographerSamuel Cha’mberIain included a fine illustration" of’- the-house in -

one of his well-known "New England calendars."

In the beginning, Douglas was proud enough of his house andmonumental chimney to insert in the latter the plaque with initialsand date which has already been mentioned.

In the hands of his descendants, the house grew somewhat insize, in the same manner as several other of its South Countyneighbors did e.g., the Palmer-Northrup house in North Kingstown,which, is in.the.National Reg.ister, and, the aforementioned -

"Cocumscussoc," which is -listed the-rein’as "Smith’s.Castle’-’.. , -:

Such growth took place in a purely practical, inconspicuous, and"organic" way; extension was made as needed, butwith, economical andunconscious sympathy to the old structure, which was not "dressed-up" stylistically outside or in to the date of any newer addition.

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fiMAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCESAghew, Dorothy: "Restoration in South-County. Old- Douglas House

Posterity," in the Providence Sunday Journal, Providence, RhodeIs’ Restored for’Island, July 13, 19k7.

Woodward, Carl R..: Plantation in Yankeeland,Colonial Rhode Island The Pequot ‘Press;

The Story of Cocumscussoc, Mirror ofInc., Chester, Connecticut, 1971,.

DGEOGRAPHICAL DATAACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY 3/4 acre

UTM REFERENCES-

Al ,sI I zi q,kIc1 1o1 14, g,g1 3,8, ol BI , I 1 I , I , I , IZONE EASTING NORTHING ZONE EASTING NORTHING -

ci I 111,1-I LI H IH I D, 1111 I 111111111 IVERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION -

LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES

STATE CODE COUNTY . - CODE

STATE . CODE COUNTY , CODE-

rnFORM PREPARED BYNAME/ TITLE -

Richard B. i-larrington, Consultant, and Ancelin V. Lynch, Nat. Register Specialist

ORGANIZATION - DATE

Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission June 9, 1975STREET& NUMBER - TELEPHONE

- 150 Benefit Street-CITY OR TOWN ‘ ‘ - ‘ - STATE

Providence Rhode Island 02903

mSTATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFIcATIoNTHE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS:

NATIONAL_ - STATE.L... LOCAL.........

As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 Public Law 89-665. I

hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated accordinQ to thecriteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.

FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVE SIGNATURE

TITLE DATE

FORNPSUSEONLY .

I HERESY CERTIFY THAT THIS PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER

‘ DATE .

DIRECTOR. OFFICE OF ARCHEOLOGY AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION ‘

ArrEST- - DATE. .

KEEPER OFTHE NATIONAL REGISTER

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Form No. 10-301aRev. 10-74

UNITED StATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACESPROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM

SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOWTO COMPLETENA TIONAL REGISTERFORMSTYPE ALL ENTRIES --IENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH

E] NAMEHISTORIC George Douglas House

AND/OR COMMON

LOCATIONTower Hill Road at

CITY. TOWN Gilbert Stuart Road OF NorthKingstown

COUNTY WashingtonRhode

STATE Island

PHOTO REFERENCEPHOTO CREDIT Keith N. Horgan DATEOFPHOTO March 1975

NEGATIVE FILED AT Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission

IDENTIFICATIONÔESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO

General exterior view of house from the southwest I

FOR NPS USE ONLY

REcEIVED

DATE ENTERED

INT: 298375

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Form No. 10-301aRev. 10-74

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNATIONAL PARK SERVICE

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACESPROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM

SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOWTO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMSTYPE ALL ENTRIES --IENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH

NAMEHISTORIC George Douglas House

AND/OR COMMON

LOCATIONTower Hill Road at

CITY. TOWN Gilbert Stuart Road .2L.VICINITY OFNorth

Kingstown COUNTY Washington STATE

RhodeIsland

PHOTO REFERENCEPHOTO CREDIT Keith N. Morgan DATE OF PHOTO March 1975

NEGATIVE FILED AT Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission

IDENTIFICATIONÔESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO

Exterior protrusion of beehive oven, north side 2

FOR NPSUSE ONLY

REcEIVED :

ATE ENTERED .. ..

INT: 2989.75

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Form No. 1O-301aRev. 10-74

UNITED SLtTES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLYNATIONAL PARK SERVICE

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES REcEIVED

PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORMDAlE TEHED :

SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOWTO COMPLETENA TIONAL REGISTERFORMSTYPE ALL ENTRIES --IENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH

NAMEHISTORIC GeorgeDouglas House

AND/OR COMMON

LOCATIONTower Hill Road at

CITY. TOWN Gilbert Stuart Road

North

VICINITY OF Kingstown COUNTY WashingtonRhode

STATE Island

fl PHOTO REFERENCEPHOTO CREDIT Keith N. Morgan DATE OF PHOTO March 1975

NEGATIVE FILED AT Rhode Island Hi storical Preservation Conmiission

fl IDENTIFICATIONÔESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO

Hearth in Keeping Room 3

INT: 2983.75

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FoimNo. 1O-3OlaRev. 10-74

UNITED S1ATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USEONLYNATIONAL PARK SERVICE

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES RECEIVED

PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORMATE ENTERED

SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOWTO COMPLETENATIONAL REGISTERFORMSTYPE ALL ENTRIES --1 ENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH

B NAMEHISTORIC George Douglas House

AND/OR COMMON

LOCATIONTower Hill Road at x

CITY TOWNGilbert Stuart Road

VICINITYOFNorth

*Kingstowri COUNTY Washington STATE

RhodeIsland

fl PHOTO REFERENCEPHOTO CREDIT Keith N. Morgan DATE OF PHOTO March 1.975

NEGATIVE FILED AT Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission

IDENTIFICATIONÔESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO

Corner cupboardin the Keeping Room 4

INT: 298375

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Form No. 1O-301aRev. 10-74

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNATIONAL PARK SERVICE

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACESPROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM

SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NA TIONAL REGISTERFORMSTYPE ALL ENTRIES --IENCLOSE WITH PHOTOGRAPH

NAMEHISTORIC George Douglas House

AND/OR COMMON

LOCATIONTower Hill Road at

CITY. TOWN Gilbert Stuart Road VICINITY OFNorth

Kingstown COUNTY WashingtonRhode

STATE Island

PHOTO REFERENCEPHOTO CREDIT

Keith N. Morgan DATE OF PHOTO March 1975

NEGATIVE FILED ATRhode Island Historical Preservation Commission

IDENTIFICATIONfESCRIBE VIEW. DIRECTION. ETC. IF DISTRICT. GIVE BUILDING NAME & STREET PHOTO NO

Fireplace in the Parlor Chamber 5

FOR NPS USE ONLY

REcEIVED

ATE ENTERED

INT: 2983.75

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Form No. 10-301P9v. 11-74’

UNITED STATESDEPARTMENT OFTHE INTERIORNATIONAL PARK SERVICE

NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACESPROPERTY MAP FORM

FOR NPS USE ONLY

RECEIVED

ATE ENTERED

SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOWTO COMPLETE NA TIONAL REGISTER FORMSTYPE ALL ENTRIES -- ENCLOSE WITH MAP

El NAMEHISTORIC George Douglas House

AND/OR COMMON

fl LOCATIONCITV.TOWN North Kingstown VICINITYOF COUNTY Washington STATE

rthodeIsland

fl MAP REFERENCESOURCE U. S. Geological Survey

SCALE1 : 24,000 . DATE 1957; photorevised 1970

fl REQUIREMENTSTO BE INCLUDED ON ALL MAPS

1. PROPERTY BOUNDARIES2. NORTH ARROW3. UTM REFERENCES

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