Built 1903 Opened 1903 Architectural style Neoclassical architecture | NRHP Reference # 83000006 Area 5,300 m² Added to NRHP 4 August 1983 | |
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Location Beach Ave,
New Shoreham, Rhode Island Similar Block Island State Airp, Block Island National, Old Harbor Historic District, Mohegan Bluffs, Block Island North Light | ||
The U.S. Weather Bureau Station is an historic former weather station on Beach Avenue on Block Island, Rhode Island. It is a two story wood frame structure, three bays wide, with a flat roof surrounded by a low balustrade. There is a full-width porch across the front, supported by grouped columns. The Classical Revival building was designed by Harding & Upman, and constructed in 1903, replacing a station destroyed by fire the previous year. It originally had meteorological instruments mounted on the roof and the grounds, and was used as a weather station until 1950. It was then converted for use as a summer tourist residence.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
References
US Weather Bureau Station (Block Island) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA