Buttonwoods Beach Historic District
Historic district in Rhode Island, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Buttonwood Beach Historic District is a historic district bounded by Brush Neck Cove, Greenwich Bay, Cooper and Promenade Avenues in Warwick, Rhode Island. Buttonwood Beach is a bucolic neighborhood on the eastern limb of the Nausauket neck, located in the West Bay area of Warwick, Rhode Island. Buttonwoods is delimited by Nausauket and Apponaug to the west, Buttonwoods Cove to the north, Greenwich (aka Cowesett) Bay to the south and Oakland Beach to the east. Buttonwood Beach was founded as a summer colony in 1871 by the Rev. Moses Bixby of Providence's Cranston Street Baptist Church, who was looking for a place to establish a summer colony by the shore for his congregation. He envisioned a community that would be similar to Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, where the Methodists established a summer campground in 1835. Today, this coastal neighborhood on Greenwich Bay is home to people from many different religious backgrounds.
Buttonwood Beach Historic District | |
Location | Warwick, Rhode Island |
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Coordinates | 41°41′04″N 71°24′42″W |
Architect | Multiple |
Architectural style | Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian |
MPS | Warwick MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 84001834 [1] |
Added to NRHP | February 23, 1984 |
The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.