Narragansett Town Hall (Fifth Avenue School)

Narragansett Town Hall (Fifth Avenue School)

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1924, J. Winfield Church. Remodeling as town hall by Raymond W. Schwab. 25 5th Ave. (at Central St.)

Another surprise! This giant brick gable broadside to the street, topped by a chimneyed endpiece, contains three stories of windows grouped around a three-arched opening. The date is astonishing. One would guess it to be a postmodernist adaptation of a motif made famous by Robert Venturi. No other Rhode Island school resembles it. How did its architect come to this solution?

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