National Register of Historic Places
Ram Point
Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island
The record
- Listed
- November 24, 2015
- Type
- Building
- Address
- 77 Watch Hill Rd., Westerly
- County
- Washington
- State
- Rhode Island
- Contributing resources
- 6 buildings, 4 structures, 2 objects
- Coordinates
- 41.33724, -71.83001
- Reference number
- 15000831
The story
Written by AI from this property's National Register nomination and the record above; every sentence is checked against its sources before it appears here. Corrections: privacy@treealive.com
Ram Point is a Colonial Revival estate at 77 Watch Hill Rd. in Westerly, Washington County, built around 1903 and attributed to architect Douglas H. Thomas, Jr. It was listed in the National Register in 2015.
Why it's listed
Ram Point was listed under criteria B and C, with local-level significance in architecture, and its period of significance is given as circa 1903, reflecting the main house's construction that year.
Physical character
The main house has a fieldstone foundation, cedar-shingled walls, and a cedar-shingled gambrel roof, with a deep porch, six-over-six wood sash windows and three brick chimneys. Fieldstone piers and walls appear elsewhere on the property. A garage was added about 1950, a sauna about 1970, a gazebo about 1980, and another building about 1990.
Historical context
John Whitridge Williams died in 1931, and heirs sold Ram Point to Marjorie Buffum Taylor in 1934. The property was later sold to Cynthia and Thomas Sculco in 1982.