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Date

January 1975

Description

This Queen Anne mansion was built by the Tinkham family. It's position on Sweet Hill, slightly elevating it above Harrisonville Mill, visually demonstrates the lordship-like status of a Victorian mill owner. The three story cylindrical corner with an open aerial gazebo at the top was part of an addition made in 1902. The open turret, dormer, and gable side by side epitomize the stylistic influences that coexist in the details of 1880s Queen Anne architecture: Victorian, exotic, Neo-Colonial classicism, and vernacular (Jordy, 309). Burrillville Rhode Island was once home to a number of successful woolen manufacturing mills in the nineteenth century. The convergence of several rivers as tributaries to the Blackstone River made Burrillville a prime location for mills in the northwestern corner of the state. (date of photograph is approximated)

Notes

Jones, Jr. , Robert O. "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form." 1983. Rhode Island Historical Society, pp 16-17 accessed January 6, 2016: http://www.preservation.ri.gov/pdfs_zips_downloads/national_pdfs/burrillville/burr_harrisville-mill-village-hd.pdf Jordy, Buildings of Rhode Island (Oxford,2004) 309

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This object from the Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcommons@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution.

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Chester E. Smolski photographic slides and publications, MSS-0041, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.

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Keywords

Burrillville, Rhode Island; mill owners; mansion; architecture, Victorian; queen anne;

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