Beach Ave., New Shoreham, Rhode Island. County/parish: Washington.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 04, 1983. NRIS 83000006.
1 contributing building.
The U.S. Weather Bureau Station is a historic former weather station on Beach Avenue on Block Island, Rhode Island. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a flat roof surrounded by a low balustrade. There is a full-width porch across the front, supported by grouped columns. The Classical Revival building was designed by Harding & Upman, and constructed in 1903, replacing a station destroyed by fire the previous year. It originally had meteorological instruments mounted on the roof and the grounds, and was used as a weather station until 1950. It was then converted for use as a summer tourist residence.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41375761