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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNATIONAL PARK SERVICE

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The Dexter house, whose architect is unknown, was built between1795 and 1797 and is of timber-frame, clapboardedconstruction above a -

sandstone basement,excepting the two exterior walls formerly the north ‘‘ .

and south and now the east and west ones"are faced in brick for weather ‘, /, :1protection. It is’ of two-and--a-ha1f storeys under a low hipped roof - .

with a square monitor. Originally located on the north-east corner of..George and ProspectStreets--roughly two blocks away-and facing west, -

the house was sawn into two sections and moved in 1860 to its new 10- -

cation, where it was turned to face south. Subsequently it was enlarged- by extensions at the east which run off to the rear of the house and by.

the insertion of dormers in the mof. Beyond these obvious but hármo-"t’niously handled additions its basic proportions, trim and appearancehave not been altered. . ‘-.

In external architectural treatment, the Dexter house is transi- -

tional between the GeorglaaandFederal styles. Its façade schemebelongs m

to the type used for the Vassall house of 1759-on Brattle Street in Camrbridge, Massachusetts. It is more architecturally adornedthan other

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contemporaryhousesof similarly moderatesize.in Providence. Quoinssupport afretted and modiLLioned cornice.- The central hay of the en- .

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trance front is marked by a pediment open at. its bc,ttom supported bytwo-storey pilaster’s of the Tuscan order, fluted these in turn sup- -

ported on pedestals and topped by narrow slices of entablature with - asingle triglyphs’. - Between the pilasters is, on the first floor, a one-storey entrance porch with smooth Tuscan columns backed by pilasters" -

and carrying a turned balustrade with urns. At second-floor level is ‘

a Palladian window whose rusticated centre arch rises into the pediment; -

glazing in the arched part of the window is "dummyglazing," for intenor ceiling height does not permit the actual ‘rindow-opening to rise ,

above the spring of the arch. First-floor windows at the front have - vs

pediments, while those at the sides and rear, and throughout the secondstorey,. have simple architraves. At the eaves is an urn-topped parapet,;panelled above solid wall areas and having opened sections of balusters . h- -,

above windows. An open,balustrade topped by urns caps the monitor. :- ‘ - I

Internally, -the house is of central-hall plan, having four prin-cipal rooms on each floor, these served by four externally flush chim- -, --

neys in the end walls. On each side of the hall, front and rear rooms, -

are separated by a space wide or deep enough to provide an arched recessfor sofa or sideboard in each front room, the recessesflahked by cup-: . -

boards’ or passageways.- Antoinette F. Downing further describes the in-’,’ - ‘-

jj:- teriort "The’:scale of the interior decoration is lighter than was com- ,

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non previously ... "Bands-of reeding decorate the-two-story pedimented . -

mantelpiece in the southeast-parlour, while the frieze-section just above -

the fireplace opening is ornamentedwith applied mouldings having quad-- .,:,.,-,‘ -

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-- The De*ter house is one of the lamentably few XVIII-Century resi,denceswhich have survived on the cresting plateau of Providence’s -

College Hill, in the, vicinity of Brown University, whose building pro--grams have caused‘the destruction of many old dwellings. Even when ‘:

there were more houses of its period nearby, this one- took a primacy ‘. I

among them becauseof its architectural distinction--having an amount’.of thoughtful elaboration not possessedby its neighbours. It has in,’:fact been stated that in Providence there was only one other dwelling -,

now vanished coeval with the Dexter house which also displayed a -

full two-storey or’colossal pilaster,order. In its class or size, theDexter house is’ as important in Providence and Rhode Island architecJ’,tural history as are the great John Brown and Nightingale houses in Alltheirs. And it is, to all purposes, architecturally completely intact.

After occupation by the Dexters, a family which remainedactiv&;and prominent locally well on into the middle and latter XIX Centui7,’,’-the house was acquired by Charles L Pendleton. - While he owned i’,it hecane a setting-for his collection of antique American furniture,,

and decorative"objects. When, around 1906, this collection wastransferred to the Rhode-IslandSchool of Design a museum-housewas

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built on school- or,operty- to contain it. Internally, this structure :‘‘ ‘

greatly copied the plan and dcor of the Dexter house. - Subsequentlythe house came’into ownership of the Hinckley family, who still’ re- -

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- Alwa occupied as a residence and excellently maintaind, itdeservesto continue in such a state and--hopefully--in such a use.

‘It is centred, above’a retaining wall and embankment,in-the middle A,.of a city block which faces the older buildings of Brown University ‘ -:and is a visual joy as’ one emergesfrom the campus or drives by in -

the street. Contrastingly now, and unfortunately, the same cannotbe said for adjacent blocks of the same street.- ‘-It is an important "

part of its district, a conspicuousbit of -local beauty and a small‘

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rants taken from the corners. The cornices, chair rails and mantel mniLd-ings in all the rooms show a great variety of patterns--reeding, -gouge cuts’,borings, circles, losenges, key designs, and dentils in various combinatioxt,

The doors ... are crowned with broken-scroll pediments. The stairwaybelongs to the type common during the first decade of the nineteenth century: its two-run plan and ramped railings conform to colonial precedents,but the balusters have become slenderBoric columns, and the landing window is simplified from the Palladian form to a plain round-headedwindow."

The house, importantly; displays its basic fonn and its original de’corative elements unchanged; those additions of accomodationwhich- have -Abeen made are visible as such but fortunately have been sympathetically -

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The Dexter house is perhaps soon to he put up for sale, and it needsprotection--not to mention assuredpreservation over-all--lest the oftenhnital exigencies of the university add it to the total of surroundingXVIII- and early XIX-Century houses already destroyed- thereby. The: houseis flanked by university-owned properties, some also of architectural valñe-though unappreciated, and one has no idea what may be ‘the construction or?other plans for thiS’ block. - ‘ " - -

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Rhode Island, 1939, p. 32.Isham, Norman N.: ... Providence & Its Colonial Houses. The White Pine

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