Location Newport, Rhode Island NRHP Reference # 72000026 Added to NRHP 13 January 1972 | Area Less than one acre Designated NHLDCP November 24, 1968 | |
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Part of Newport Historic District (#68000001) Similar Claiborne Pell Newport, Fort Adams State Park, Castle Hill Light, Wanton–Lyman–Hazard House, Whale Rock | ||
The Dr. Charles Cotton House is an historic house at 5 Cotton Court in Newport, Rhode Island. It is one of the city's oldest houses.
It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney and a hipped roof. The original portion of the house was built around 1720 with large Georgian style additions in the 18th century and modifications in the nineteenth century.
Dr. Charles Cotton, a great-grandson of Josiah Cotton and surgeon aboard the USS Constitution, owned the house in the early 19th century and gave the house its current name. The Cotton House was taken by eminent domain by the Newport Restoration Foundation in 1974 from the Cotton family who owned the house for 157 years. The Foundation moved the house in 1977 from its original location across the adjoining parking lot. The house was restored from 1979 to 1980. The site added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.