Cerritto House, Watch Hill, Rhode Island
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| Cerritto House | |
| Designer | Paul Rudolph |
| Location | Watch Hill, Rhode Island, USA |
| Date | 1956 |
| Building Type | Small House |
| Construction System | wood frame |
| Climate | Mild Temperate |
| Context | Suburban |
| Architectural Style | Modern |
| Street Address | 74 Ocean View Hwy Walk Score |
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| Building Details | |
| Client | Dr. Louis Cerrito |
| Area | 3,900 square feet (362 sq m) |
| Stories | 1 |
| Program | living room measures 21 x 31 feet (6.4 x 9.4 meters) |
This deceptively simple home by Paul Rudolph was saved from demolition in 2007 when New York designers Daniel Sachs and Kevin Lindores purchased the house from its current owners, the Hogan family. The house will be cut in half and transported from Watch Hill, RI to a new location on a 20-acre (8.0-hectare) parcel in Catskill, New York.
"The Watch Hill house is vintage Rudolph. It has shades on the north and south sides to provide protection from the sun - an idea he used on the "Umbrella House" in Lido Shores a couple years before. Otherwise, it's distinctively modernist, a rectangular box with sliding-glass doors and terrazzo on the ground level." – Harold Bubil at Sarasota Herald Tribune
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- To Preserve a House, a Plan to Move It, by Robin Pogrebin, The New York Times, 2007.0523.
- Rudolph house saved, by Harold Bubil, Sarasota Herald Tribune, 2007.0523.
- David Owen. Google Maps computer screenshot. Archival screen capture of satellite imagery depicting the Cerritto House on its original Watch Hill, RI site. 2007.0524.
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- Watch Hill Gem Is Just Another Tear-Down - Hartford Courant, 2007.0513
