The Edward Everett Hale House (New Sybaris; The Red House) is a historic house at 2625A Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry Highway in
South Kingstown, Rhode Island
South Kingstown is a town in, and the county seat of, Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 31,931 at the 2020 census. South Kingstown is the second largest town in Rhode Island by total geographic area, behind New ...
. It was commissioned in 1873 by businessman and historian William B. Weeden and designed by architects C. Maxson & Company of
Westerly.
Edward Everett Hale
Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as " The Man Without a Country", published in '' Atlantic Monthly'', in support of the Union ...
used the house as a summer home for himself and his family for several decades from the 1870s to the 1910s. The house and added to 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 2007.
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Hale House
Houses in South Kingstown, Rhode Island
Houses completed in 1873
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Rhode Island
Italianate architecture in Rhode Island
Second Empire architecture in Rhode Island
Victorian architecture in Rhode Island
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