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SY Eon, 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERI6R
4 , July 969 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACESINVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM
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DESCRII3E TItE PRESENT AND ORIr,INAL if knnlvr; PHYSICAL APPEAIIANCE
The White Horse Tavern is a large-scale, five-bay-wide, two-and-one-half story claphoardedbuilding capped by a gambrel roof. It is seton a stone foundation, ahuttinr the sidewalk at the corner of Farewelland Marlborough Streets, and faces east. Probably built heCore 1673as only a two-room, two-story house with a large pilastered hr’Jak chimney, it was expandedacross the rear to its present five-room plan before 1750, when it probably also recived its present roof-form. Thebuilding was further altered after the Revolution.
The centered main entrance on Farewell Street and the side enLtrance on Marlborough Street are similar in design. Each has a six-panel door surmnunted by a transom and enframed by flat pilasters whichsupport an entablature and pediment. The 18th-century windows werealtered iii the restoration of the 1950’s; they now have twelve-over-eight double-hung sashwith molded sills and caps. No evidence of thescvunteenth-centurywindows and their proportions has remained. Aspresently restored, the size and the shape of the windows have beenchangedfrom the narrow nine-over-nine dimensions common to early -
eighteenth-centuryRhode Island building and belong to no style appro- zpriate to this building. A two-story shingled eli, ttsalt..hoIt in form,adjoins the rear at the north-west corner.
Much of the seventeenth-centurycharacter os the interior is stillintact in the original eastern halfof the building. Most of the heavy C
timber framing throughout this two-room, two-story section is exposed, nrevealing chamfered summer-beams andgirts; and chamfering was appliedto the corner-posts in the south-east rOom oh the second- floor. Al- -
though now encasedby panelling, diagonal bracing in the north-westroom of the secondfloor remains in place. The summer-beamsin thenorth-east room on the first floor and in the south-east chamber on thesecond floor run perpendicular to the fireplace; those in the south-east room and in the north-east chamberrun naralliel to the fireplace.
Although it3 exposed pilastered top is a restoration, the originalcentral chimney remains in place, as do brick fireplaces of very largedimensions in each room. The cun-ed walls and coves above are characteristic of early brick fireplace -‘àonstruction in Rhode Island: thosein this building are ospecially good examples. The triple-run windingstaircase butted against thechimney in the cramped front hall is a replacement, installed in the l95Ots. It is designedwith sawn, S-shapedhalusters and a closed, nanefled string-course.
Opening into the rear of the original south-easternrooms, atriple-run winding staircase with turned halusters and a panelled string-course; this is an original stair probably dating from the pre-1750 en-largwent of the house. The rear rooms added at that time have beenaltered to accommodatemodern restaurant facilities.
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Form 1O-300o - UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR - STATE
July 1969 NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - Rhode Island
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNTY
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- In the 1950’s restoration, however, an unfortunate mistake wasmade in the treatment of the window openings and their sash, changingthe size and shape from the narrower 9-over’-9 proportions connon toearly eighteenth-century Rhode Island building. Early photographsshow*indows of the correct form whioh had, of course, In their turn replacedthe seventeenth-centurywindows. -
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Probably built before 1673, the White Horse Tavern is the oldest- tavern still in operation in America. Acquired in. 1673 by William- -
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U - The tavern served as a center of local affairs -throughout theearly years of Newport. The Town Council met here, as did the colony’s -
-General Assembly--accordingto tradition--while Richard Munday’s Colony-- House 1739 was under conãtruction. So important was the tavernts
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- Although it was enlarged to its present dimensions in the mid-eighteenth- ILl century, its original esction is one of the earliest structures pre-
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- Antoinette F. Downing, Chairman, Clifford M. Renshaw, III, ConsultantoIIIAOI ZA lION
Rhode Island Historical Preservation-CoimnissionDATE
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State House, 90 Smith Street - --- * *. * --
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As the designated State Liaison Officer for the No
tional Ilistoric Preservotion Act of 1966 Public Law
89.665, 1 hereby nominnte this property for inclusion
ir, the Notional Register ond certify thnt It has been
evnIIIoIed according to the criteria and procerhires set
forth by the National Park Service. The recommended
level of significance of this nomination is:
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Rhode Island
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES CONTYPOrt
PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY
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I- LOCA1IONTREET AND NUMBER:o 26 Marlborough Street
CITY OR TOWN:
NewportSTATE: CODE COUNTY CODE
Rhode Island bh Newport 005JHOTORErERENCE
- ‘HOTO CREDIT: Clifford M. Renshaw, IIIDATE OF PHOTO: 197]..
LU IEGATIVE FILED AT: Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission,State House,- 90 Smith Street, Providence, Rhodelsland,02903
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Exterior from the south-east.
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NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Rhode Island
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES COUNiYt
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26 Marlborough StreetCITY OR TOWN:
NewportSTATE: CODE COUNTY: CODE
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North-west end of present dining-room in south part of the house,showing stairway pro-dating the house’s XVIII-Century enlargement.
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