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Chet Smolski, Rhode Island College

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New Shoreham is the town located on Block Island. New Shoreham was named for Shoreham, Kent, in England. The town has a total area of 109.5 square miles of which, 9.7 square miles of it is land and 99.8 square miles is water. The New Shoreham House is a hotel located directly across from the ferry dock on Water Street in the Old Harbor District of the island. Historic hotels in this area were salvaged from neglect when the Old Harbor District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

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Jordy, Buildings of Rhode Island (Oxford, 2004) p 605

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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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Recommended Citation

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

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Keywords

Block Island, Rhode Island; New Shoreham House; resort towns; historic buildings; hotels;

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