Dr. George W. Carr House

The Dr. George W. Carr House, also known simply as Carr House, is an historic house at 29 Waterman Street in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island.[2] The Queen Anne style house was built in 1885 by Edward I. Nickerson and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[3]

Dr. George W. Carr House
Dr. George W. Carr House
LocationProvidence, Rhode Island
Coordinates41.82709°N 71.40759°W / 41.82709; -71.40759
Built1885
ArchitectEdward I. Nickerson
Architectural styleQueen Anne
Part ofCollege Hill Historic District (ID70000019)
NRHP reference No.73000067 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 7, 1973
Designated NHLDCPNovember 10, 1970

The building was purchased by the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1916,[3] and has served a variety of roles for the school, most recently as a student cafe named Carr Haus and lounge at RISD.[4] It is one of Providence's early prominent examples of Queen Anne styling.[3] The house is built on a steep slop and located at the corner of a busy intersection of Waterman Street and Benefit Street.[3]

In 1916, the Providence Engineering Society occupied the entire second floor of the building, then owned by RISD.[5][6] In 1926, artist Frank Convers Mathewson (1862–1941) lived in the Carr House.[7]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. "Carr, Dr. George W., House". NPGallery Digital Asset Management System, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  3. "NRHP nomination for Dr. George W. Carr House" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. 1957. Retrieved 2021-01-09.
  4. http://csi.risd.edu/carr-haus/ RISD website
  5. Iron Age, Volume 98. Chilton Company. 1916. p. 971.
  6. Journal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. 1917. p. 871.
  7. Herringshaw, Thomas William (1926). Herringshaw's American Blue-book of Biography: Prominent Americans of 1926. American Publishers' Association. American Publishers' Association. p. 467.


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