Built 1715 (1715) NRHP Reference # 72001576 Opened 1715 | Demolished c. 1973 Designated NHLDCP November 24, 1968 Added to NRHP 20 January 1972 | |
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Location 243-245 Thame St., Newport, Rhode Island Part of Newport Historic District (#68000001) Similar Claiborne Pell Newport, Fort Adams State Park, Castle Hill Light, Wanton–Lyman–Hazard House, Whale Rock | ||
The Charles Tillinghast House was an historic house at 243-245 Thames Street in downtown Newport, Rhode Island. It was a 2 1⁄2-story timber-frame structure, with a side-gable roof. Built c. 1710–20, it was one of the oldest buildings in the city. It was probably built by Charles Tillinghast, whose family was among the founders of Rhode Island. The house had a distinctive cove-shaped plaster cornice, typically only found on houses of this period. It was one of the very first houses to be built on Thames Street.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It was demolished shortly thereafter to make way for an extension of America's Cup Highway to Memorial Boulevard.
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