The George Douglas House is an historic house at Tower Hill and Gilbert Stuart Roads in

North Kingstown, Rhode Island North Kingstown is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States, and is part of the Providence metropolitan area. Its population was 27,732 in the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. North Kingstown is the birthplace of American ...

. Its oldest section dated to the 1730s, it is one of a small number of surviving colonial-era

stone ender The stone-ender is a unique style of Rhode Island architecture that developed in the 17th century where one wall in a house is made up of a large stone chimney. History Rhode Island was first settled in 1636 by Roger Williams and other colonist ...

houses in the state. This original block is three bays wide and two stories high, with a massive fieldstone chimney at its north end. Its exterior ornamentation is minimal, limited to pilasters on either side of the main entrance, and a triangular pediment above. A small kitchen ell was added to the north side (next to the chimney, which remains exposed), probably early in the 19th century, and a bedroom further extended this ell in the 1940s. The house was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...

in 1975.

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{{National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island Houses in North Kingstown, Rhode Island Houses completed in 1738 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Rhode Island Colonial architecture in Rhode Island

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