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The George Douglas House is an historic house at Tower Hill and Gilbert Stuart Roads in
North Kingstown, Rhode Island North Kingstown is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States, and is part of the Providence metropolitan area. The population was 27,732 in the 2020 census. North Kingstown is home to the birthplace of American portraitist Gilbe ...
. Its oldest section dated to the 1730s, it is one of a small number of surviving colonial-era stone ender houses in the state. This original block is three bays wide and two stories high, with a massive fieldstone chimney at its north end. Its exterior ornamentation is minimal, limited to pilasters on either side of the main entrance, and a triangular pediment above. A small kitchen ell was added to the north side (next to the chimney, which remains exposed), probably early in the 19th century, and a bedroom further extended this ell in the 1940s. The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1975.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Rhode Island __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Rhode Island. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington C ...


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{{National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island Houses in North Kingstown, Rhode Island Houses completed in 1738 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Rhode Island Colonial architecture in Rhode Island