Charles Dowler House

Charles Dowler House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Providence, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°50′9″N71°25′51″W / 41.83583°N 71.43083°W / 41.83583; -71.43083
Built	1877
NRHP reference No.	84001955 [1]
Added to NRHP	February 23, 1984

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]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. ^[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Providence, Rhode Island

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
2. "NRHP nomination for Charles Dowler House" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved October 11, 2014.