Oak Glen | |
Location | Portsmouth, Rhode Island |
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Coordinates | 41°33′33″N 71°16′53″W / 41.55917°N 71.28139°W |
Area | 4.7 acres (1.9 ha) |
NRHP reference No. | 78003444 [1] |
Added to NRHP | March 29, 1978 |
Oak Glen is a historic house at 745 Union Street in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a highly pitched gambrel roof and jerkin-headed (clipped) gable ends. The house was built about 1870 by Samuel and Julia Ward Howe as a summer retreat. The ell attached to the rear of the house is a c. 1850 cottage which was standing on the site when the Howes purchased the property. After Samuel Howe died in 1876, Julia (best known as the author of " The Battle Hymn of the Republic") made this her permanent home. [2] She died here on October 17, 1910, [3] at the age of 91.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1]