The William Watts Sherman House, a notable…

The William Watts Sherman House, a notable house in Newport, Rhode Island, designed by American architect H. H. Richardson and built in 1875-1876, with later interiors by Stanford White, is generally acknowledged as one of Richardson's masterpieces, and the prototype for what later will become known as the Shingle Style in American architecture.

The house is two and a half stories in height and basically rectangular, about fifty-three feet by eighty-one feet in dimensions, with a porte-cochere on the east facade, and two principal entrances on the west.

Its first story is faced in pink granite ashlar, with higher stories of brick, shingle, and half-timbered stucco, diamond-panel windows grouped in long, horizontal bands, and five massive red brick chimneys.

Trim materials include reddish sandstone and brownstone.

The roof is steeply gabled, with a broad single gable in front and multiple sharp gables to the rear, all originally shingled in wood.

Its interior organizes clusters of rooms about a spacious central stair hall.