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John Odlin–Jonathan Otis House

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c. 1705. 109–111 Spring St.

The Odlin-Otis House is a long, gabled half house with a south elevation of brick, one room wide, which was extended, possibly for use as a Quaker boys' school, in 1788. The depth of the front overhang is characteristically medieval. Otis was a goldsmith.

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William H. Jordy et al.
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William H. Jordy et al., "John Odlin–Jonathan Otis House", [Newport, Rhode Island], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/RI-01-NE52.

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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, 533-533.

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