Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University (Henry Pearce House)

Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University (Henry Pearce House)

Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University (Henry Pearce House) Photograph by Andrew Hope
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1898, Angell and Swift. 182 George St.

Number 182 George, built for a banker, is a late full-blown, rather diffuse and, for Providence, surprisingly rare example of residential Richardsonian Romanesque in customary tan and red-brown quarry-faced granite, with a giant carriage entrance with porte-cochere hidden off a rear corner. Stylistically, however, the house is curiously dichotomous. What is a belated style on the exterior becomes quite up-to-date Colonial Revival inside, predominantly of an intricate Neo-Federal inspiration. It is as though he sought dominating monumentality, while she craved glittering refinement. Much of the interior remains despite its academic use, including a copper-clad conservatory embellished as a grape arbor in stained glass, like a live-in Tiffany lamp. (The more impressively compact Neo-Romanesque carriage house for this house stands around the corner, right, on Brook Street.)

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