Clouds Hill (Warwick, Rhode Island) Explained

Cedar Hill
Location:4157 Post Road, Warwick, Rhode Island
Area:27.4acres
Built:1877
Architect:William R. Walker
Architecture:Gothic Revival
Added:December 22, 2014
Refnum:14001077

Clouds Hill is a historic house museum located at 4157 Post Road in Warwick, Rhode Island. Its stand on the estate formerly known as Cedar Hill, a country estate built 1871-77 as a wedding present for Elizabeth Ives Slater Reed by her father, William S. Slater. The main mansion, designed by noted Providence architect William R. Walker, is a large Gothic Revival structure and one of his few surviving large-scale residential designs. The Slaters and Reeds, prominent industrial textile magnates in Rhode Island, adorned the property with high quality Victorian-era workmanship, including a distinctive Egyptian-themed room. The estate, occupied by four generations of Reed descendants, was converted to a museum in 2004[1] and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. The museum is open by appointment, or when events are scheduled.

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  1. Web site: NRHP nomination for Cedar Hill. Rhode Island Preservation. 2014-12-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20150101035521/http://www.preservation.ri.gov/pdfs_zips_downloads/warw-reed_estate.pdf. 2015-01-01. dead.