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Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs

Accession Number: 15/5/3090.00538

Title: Watts-Sherman House

Creator: Richardson, Henry Hobson

Bio/Origin: American, 1838-1886

Role: Architect

Notes: "The Sherman house, 1874-75, was designed on a broad expansive plan with rooms clustered about a spacious central stair hall... To this organized form was added a new interest in texture, especially evident in the published rendering drawn by Stanford White, who was then in Richardson's office. Above the masonry of the first floor, shingles, small half-timbered panels, and textured stucco are used. Even the diamond-panel windows continue the overall texture. What could have become cacophonous was held superbly in check by grouping windows in horizontal bands so that although this is a tall house, it is the horizontal line which predominates. Here, with references to medieval manor houses and the contemporary work of the English architect Richard Norman Shaw, is the beginning of the Shingle Style later carried to maturity by McKim, Mead & White and crystallized by the Stoughton house." Source: Leland M. Roth. A Concise History of American Architecture. p165-6. The Watts-Sherman House is now part of the campus of Salve Regina University.

Dates: ca. 1875-ca. 1895?Photograph date

Dates: 1874-1875?Building Date

Classfication: Photographs

Medium: albumen print

Current Site: North and Central America: United States; Rhode Island, Newport

Style: Shingle Style

Measurement: Image: 6 x 8 1/4 in.; 15.24 x 20.955 cm

Subjects: Houses, Shingles, Weathervanes, Rustication, Chimneys, Watts-Sherman House, Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island

Provenance: Transfer from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning

Repository: Cornell University Library?A.D. White Photographs?Rare & Manuscript Collections?Cornell University