Woods-Gerry House - Providence RI
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The Woods-Gerry House (or Dr. Marshall Woods House) is an historic house on 62 Prospect Street in Providence, Rhode Island.
The house was built in 1860 by Richard Upjohn in an Italianate style.
Waymark Code: WMDTYV
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 02/24/2012
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This house was built during the years 1860-1863 for Dr. and Marshall Wood and was designed by the eminent architect Richard Upjohn of New York. It is a free-standing rectangular tow1 house (the largest in Providence)of brick with wood and sandstone trim and a slate.
Inspired by Italian Renaissance design, as were other buildings being created by Upjohn at this time, it affords an interesting contrast with such irregular, asymmetrical and heavily-trimmed buildings as
Edward King house built in Newport some twenty-two years earlier.
This house is a thing of pedigree, having been designed by the famous architect Richard Upjohn. It is one of four major commissions
executed by him in Providence: two were churches (existing) two werelarge houses, of which this is the survivor. The Woods-Gerry- House isof mid-19th Century Italianate.
The house has provoked a warm interest and enthusiastic engeries among a group of the , usually on avant-gard-faculty and students at the Rhode Island School of Design; through them it has been rescued from disuse and decay.This house was built during the years 1860-1863 for Dr. and Marshall Wood and was designed by the eminent architect Richard Upjohn of New York. It is a free-standing rectangular tow1 house (the largest in Providence)of brick with wood and sandstone trim and a slate.
Inspired by Italian Renaissance design, as were other buildings being created by Upjohn at this time, it affords an interesting contrast with such irregular, asymmetrical and heavily-trimmed buildings as
Edward King house built in Newport some twenty-two years earlier.
This house is a thing of pedigree, having been designed by the famous architect Richard Upjohn. It is one of four major commissions
executed by him in Providence: two were churches (existing) two werelarge houses, of which this is the survivor. The Woods-Gerry House is of mid-19th Century Italianate.
The house has provoked a warm interest and enthusiastic engeries among a group of the , usually on avant-gard faculty and students at the Rhode Island School of Design; through them it has been rescued from disuse and decay.
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