Hopelands

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Location Warwick, Rhode Island
Coordinates 41°39′27″N71°25′2″W / 41.65750°N 71.41722°W / 41.65750; -71.41722 Coordinates: 41°39′27″N71°25′2″W / 41.65750°N 71.41722°W / 41.65750; -71.41722
Area75 acres (30 ha)
Built1686
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Colonial
MPS Warwick MRA
NRHP reference No. 83000173 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 18, 1983

Hopelands is a historic country estate on Wampanoag Road in Warwick, Rhode Island. It is now the campus of the Rocky Hill School, a private college preparatory school. The historic centerpiece of the estate is a Colonial Revival mansion house, whose western ell is a wood-frame structure built in 1686. This house and its associated 75-acre (30 ha) property became the center of one of Warwick's first country estates, when in 1793 a Federal-style house was built by Thomas P. Ives and Hope (Brown) Ives, to which the old building was attached. This was given extensive Colonial Revival treatment in 1885 by Moses Goddard. [2] The estate was acquired by the Rocky Hill School in 1948.

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The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. "Historic resources of Warwick (PDF pages 80-84)" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-08-16.