Historic Walking Tours of Narragansett Pier
Cottages Treasures Map 1 (Central Street) Map 2 (The Towers) Map 3 (Earlscourt)
Map 4 (Ocean Road) Map 4A (South)
Cottages: Earlscourt Area
Earlescourt was built in 1886-87 for Edward Earle, a New York lawyer. It consisted of four large Late Victorian cottages on the south side of the Earles Court road, along with an ornate water tower set in the middle of the road. The tower had a wooden superstructure which included a balcony incorporating a giant wooden griffin. The superstructure was destroyed in a 1928 gale. Only two of the cottages remain, and one of them is substantially modified.
The historic district includes an adjacent development, the Louis Sherry cottages, built around 1889 for the famed New York restaurateur and caterer who managed the Narragansett Casino. The cottages are a group of similarly designed Shingle Style cottages arranged symmetrically around a grassy court, known as Kentara Green, opposite the head of the Earlscourt road. The development originally included two more houses and a central restaurant-dining hall, none of which remain.
Off Gibson Avenue, just to the north of these developments, at what is now known as Gibso Court, was another planned development. Only one house, called Gardencourt, was built, in 1888 and it has been extensively modified.
We have included three nearby structures of historic interest that were not included in the Earlscourt district: Druids Dream on Gibson Avenue to the south, and the H.F. Kenyon House, and Four Gables, both on South Pier Road between Gibson Avenue and Ocean Avenue.
144 Gibson Avenue 12 South Pier Avenue
1850 c.1898
H. F. Kenyon House Louis Sherry cottages
41 South Pier Road (Above: 65 Gibson Avenue)
c1890 c1888