Located across from the Winthrop-Eckley Double House on Corne Street, this gorgeous Italianate style summer cottage is a perfect blending of stature and whimsy. The house was built around 1850 and owned by Charles B. Peckham. Built in the Italianate style, the symmetrical house stands three-stories with covered side entrances divided by a projecting two-story bay. The house exhibits broad, overhanging eaves and paired and ganged round arched windows. The property was known as “Bay Crest” and remains one of the unsung landmarks of the 1850s in Newport.
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Is 1850 a bit early for the Italianate? Could it have been remodeled from a neoclassical style to the Italianate?
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It is early but not too early. Given the fact that Newport was a town where wealthy residents hired architects to showcase their wealth and design houses in the most fashionable and exclusive styles. The Edward King House in Newport is possibly the first Italianate style house built in Newport and dates to 1845-1847.
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