Exterior

Situated on the steep slope of what was then called Bowen Street, now named College Hill, the building is turned 90 degrees from Benefit Street to provide an adequate garden to the front and to allow for an L-plan that rises up the hill. This was the first time Greene used this format for one of his buildings. He would adopt a similar layout in the Benoni Cooke House (1825) and the Truman Beckwith House (1826) also on Providence’s East Side. The main façade has a center three-story section flanked by two-story wings, all surmounted by parapet walls to conceal the flat roofs. The kitchen ell adjoins the east wing and beyond it, at right angles, are the stables and carriage house facing a service court. The elaborate entrance porch supported by clustered Gothic colonnettes, and the Palladian window over the porch, are of particular distinction.