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Martin Page–Horace Buffum–George W. Gardner House

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1806, Daniel Hale. 1920s. 106 George St.
  • (Photograph by Patricia Lynette Searl)

Adjacent to the church is a two-and-one-half-story brick house in the Greene manner. The five-bay house has end chimneys and a monitor which may originally have been screened by an ornamental parapet at the eaves. A mason who worked for John Holden Greene built the house on speculation and sold it to a mariner, who passed it on to his son-in-law partner. It ultimately became the repository for a collection of American antiques owned by the George W. Gardners, who left the house and its contents to Brown University. It now serves as a guest house for distinguished visitors to the campus.

Writing Credits

Author: 
William H. Jordy et al.
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What's Nearby

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Brown University Library Buildings
Maddock Alumni Center, Brown University
Nicholson House
Brown University Faculty Club

Citation

William H. Jordy et al., "Martin Page–Horace Buffum–George W. Gardner House", [Providence, Rhode Island], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/RI-01-PR111.

Print Source

Buildings of Rhode Island, William H. Jordy, with Ronald J. Onorato and William McKenzie Woodward. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 96-96.

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