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Charles H. Baker House

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1898, Gould and Angell. 67 Stimson Ave.
  • (Photograph by Andrew Hope)
  • (Photograph by JPRiley, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Across Stimson Avenue is one more baronial gesture. Charles Baker was a superintendent for the famed Gorham silver works. His house shows a Flemish gable in brick stepping its way through a fissure in Queen Anne shingling. The result is delightfully brazen—long before anyone had imagined the postmodernist ironies possible from such disruptive stylistic composition.

Writing Credits

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

Ebenezer Knight Dexter–John J. Stimson House (Rose Farm)
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Citation

William H. Jordy et al., "Charles H. Baker House", [Providence, Rhode Island], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/RI-01-PR149.

Print Source

Buildings of Rhode Island, William H. Jordy, with Ronald J. Onorato and William McKenzie Woodward. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 113-113.

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