Beach Ave., New Shoreham, Rhode Island. County/parish: Washington.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 22, 2001. NRIS 01001156.
Part of New Shoreham (Block Island), Rhode Island MPS (NRIS 64500553).
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Hygeia House is a historic vacation home on Beach Avenue on Block Island (New Shoreham, Rhode Island).
It is a 2-3 story wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with a mansard roof. The building presents 2+1⁄2 stories to the front, with a row of four dormers on the roof, a porch extending the entire width of the front, and wrapping around to the right to join a projecting section of the main block.
The hotel was built in 1885 and operated as the Seaside House at a location about 150 yards (140 m) south of its present location. It was moved here in 1907 to the grounds of the Hygeia Hotel, a much larger hotel that burned down in 1916.
The Hygeia's previous owner, Dr. John Champlin, had his medical office in this building and continued to rent rooms to summer visitors. It was used as employee housing for other tourist facilities for many years.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41374691