The Ocean Road Historic District is a residential historic district, encompassing an area of fashionable summer houses built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Narragansett, Rhode Island. The area is located south of The Towers, the center of the Narragansett Pier area, extending along Ocean Road roughly from Hazard Street to Wildfield Farm Road. Many of the 45 houses in the district were built between about 1880 and 1900, with a few built earlier and later. The Shingle style is prominent in the architectural styles found, including among houses designed by architects, including McKim, Mead & White and William Gibbons Preston. The most unusual property is called Hazard's Castle, a rambling stone structure built beginning in the 1840s by Joseph Peace Hazard, who was a major landowner in the area prior to its development in the 1880s.[2]
Ocean Road Historic District | |
 Flat Rock Cottage | |
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| Location | Narragansett, Rhode Island |
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| Area | 92 acres (37 ha) |
| Architect | McKim, Mead & White; William Gibbons Preston |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne, Shingle Style |
| MPS | Narragansett Pier MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 82000019 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 18, 1982 |
The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "Historic Resources of Narragansett Pier" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved October 22, 2014.