W Watts Sherman House
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 | W. Watts Sherman House |
| Designer | Henry Hobson Richardson |
| Location | Newport, Rhode Island, USA |
| Date | 1874 to 1875 |
| Building Type | house |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | suburban |
| Architectural Style | Shingle style |
| Street Address | Shepard Ave |
| Notes | The William Watts Sherman House |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/W_Watts_Sherman_House.html |
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"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."
— Leland M. Roth. A Concise History of American Architecture. p165-6.
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Roger H. Clark and Michael Pause. Precedents in Architecture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1985. clustering diagram, p201.— Updated edition available at Amazon.com
Donald Corner and Jenny Young. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1842.04. PCD.2260.1012.1842.02
Henry-Russel Hitchcock. The Architecture of H. H. Richardson and His Times. Hamden: Archon Books, 1961. NA737.R5H5 1961. perspective drawing, f36. plan drawing of second floor, f39.
Jeffrey Karl Ochsner. H. H. Richardson, Complete Architectural Works. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982. Exterior photo of house, f52b, p136. Interior photo of stairs, f51f, p139. Top photo on page. plan drawing, p136.
Leland M. Roth. A Concise History of American Architecture. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1979. ISBN 0-06-430086-2. NA705.R67 1979. drawing by Stanford White, f146, plan drawing, f147, p166.
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