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Newport Artillery Company

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1835, Alexander McGregor. 23 Clarke St. (open to the public)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)

The Scottish master mason responsible for work at Fort Adams in 1833 also built this granite ashlar building with its bristling quoins and door trim for the oldest military organization in the country. The second story was added in the early twentieth century.

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Author: 
William H. Jordy et al.
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William H. Jordy et al., "Newport Artillery Company", [Newport, Rhode Island], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/RI-01-NE79.

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Buildings of Rhode Island, William H. Jordy, with Ronald J. Onorato and William McKenzie Woodward. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 541-541.

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