The Charles Dowler House is an historic house at 581 Smith Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a 1+1⁄2-story mansard-roofed wood-frame structure, built in 1872 by Charles Parker Dowler, a local artist. The building typifies a cottage ornée, or decorated cottage, a building style popular in the 1860s and 1870s. It is an elaborately decorated Second Empire structure, with an asymmetrical T layout, detailed decoration in the dormers which pierce the fish-scale-shingled mansard roof, and a porch in the crook of the T which is supported by Corinthian columns. The interior retains both extensive period woodwork and wall paintings.[2]
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| Location | Providence, Rhode Island |
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| Coordinates | 41°50′9″N 71°25′51″W / 41.83583°N 71.43083°W |
| Built | 1877 |
| NRHP reference No. | 84001955 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 23, 1984 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Charles Dowler House" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-10-11.