Very graceful.

Beautiful! I've always wanted to go to Rhode Island, but I've never even been to Connecticut or Massachusetts.

That is a fantastic arch.

Oh, that is the stuff of dreams. I wonder the room with the window box is like?

So charming 😍

My favorite carriage house ever. I have a picture of it as my phone wallpaper. I love watch hill. It is just too close to tyler's

Path to beach around the bend is lovely too

So pretty and charming.

Sigh...so lovely 💕

I'd put a long porch swing facing the ocean for the whole family. Beautiful.

Now that is beautiful

Too funny, Roarah.

As I said, it is oft photographed, being so lovely and also just up the block from the main drag, and very close to the street. https://www.google.com/search?q=watch+hill+rhode+island+portico+house+arch&sxsrf=ALeKk01sZKQsGemg8RcVsu5fIERLqxd-FQ:1596258343243&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwil5JHcnfnqAhUDgnIEHbGYC0cQ_AUoAnoECAwQBA&biw=1217&bih=489

This photo much better than my furtive shot with an old kerosene-powered iphone.

If we buy a second home it will be in RI. I(mostly) grew up there and husband's family are all in nearby MA. I wish I could afford something that beautiful! Love that area as well but we will be in area closer to family. Looking in Bristol.

Now that really draws you in. Beautiful!

Ha! I guessed Watch Hill before you answered my question. Our summer place is also in RI but not in Watch Hill and ummm not quite that gorgeous.

RI beaches are the best, but please don’t tell anyone. 🤫

jmck, we are looking at Bristol as well :) We are in Colorado right now and not quite ready to retire but all of DH's family are in Little Compton and Portsmouth.

Funny I knew zero about RI until I moved to CT, but it sure has some charming spots.

I also pass this home on my walks, which has a lovely moongate thru which you can see their waterfall.

Oh, wow. These houses are just spectacular! The very essence of grace and charm in a home.

I loved the rose arch in front of this house in Brig, Switzerland. Nice to have the Alps in your backyard, too.

I've had this saved forever. It's pretty much perfection to me.

These are three I love that I've saved in Pinterest. I like so many different house styles. I always said if I built another house it would be more like the first two, but we're going Mediterranean style instead in FL to fit the area. Looking at these again, though, I'm tempted to start all over and design something like this.

I would need to have about 20 homes to build one with each style I like...

Here are some from a walk in Wickford RI.

Here are some from a walk in Wickford RI.

I like this house in Guanajuato, Mexico

A lot of large houses there were built during the Art Nouveau period, which is when lot of money was made from the silver mines in the area.

Love looking at houses. Here is one on the Jersey shore. I am not sure if it was designed by Sanford White but the triangles reflect his style.

Speaking of RI this is the house where my daughter got married last year on August 3rd.

Ohh sue I miss wickford RI. I lived there in the early 90s.

Wickford is the cutest town! I used to only go for the shops...then started walking further down the street and discovered all these amazing historic houses on the water. Swoon.

Totally different part of the country, but this is my latest Santa Fe obsession.

Love them all! Glad to see I am not the only one who takes photos of houses I do not know and will never visit or live in, just 'cause.

I’ve always loved this house that i pass on one of my walking routes. Looks like it belongs in Marthas Vineyard.

So adorable. It's very interesting how the front porch is uncovered.

Drove out to AZ from FL a few weeks ago (June 2020) and along the way took some great photos of homes in Mobile AL and the Garden District of NOLA. I'm not a photographer at all but enjoyed seeing the all the beautiful homes.

I have them stored on Houzz (a few only) for their shutter size and location...lol

Pollardswood Cottages, Buckinghamshire

Love those floor to ceiling windows in the old Southern homes. Reminds me of the quirky thing in Charleston, where their front door looks like a normal from door, but opens onto an open air side porch. Kinda funny to me!

http://www.sccoastalislandhomes.com/blog/history-behind-hospitality-doors-charleston-single-homes/

This is pretty much the spitting image of our closest neighbor about a third of a mile up the road. The only difference is their house has wide red brick stairs from the porch to the sidewalk. It's on a beautiful farm and the house doesn't face the road, but to the side. The main entrance is through the utility room in the back of the house. :)

St. Andrews Bungalow Court in Hollywood.

...and at night

Another house in California, this one is in Hancock Park in Los Angeles:

I drive past this house on the way to my mom's senior living facility. I had the opportunity to tour part of the inside during a house walk about 5 years ago. It's referred to as the gingerbread house.

Bac - what an interesting roof. I've never seen shingles wrapped like that.

The amazing thing is there is an addition to this house on the back and they replicated the wrapped shingles there, too.

I shared this listing in another thread --- it is actually an auberge/B&B in southern France that we stayed at, and it is for sale

This s the view from the terrace entrance to the main house. House is here.

This was my favorite house in Temple, Texas (where I was born), and it was built in 1911, in a Chinese style. Temple was started in 1881 by the Santa Fe Railroad because it was where they decided to make an intersection in the railroad for N/S and E/W lines. Temple is approximately equidistant from Dallas, San Antonio, and Houston, and this was probably why they chose this location. The railroad also built a regional hospital, and Temple grew up as a railroad town and medical center. Most of the largest houses were owned by doctors. There were a lot of Chinese railroad workers who settled in Temple, which may account for the Chinese design of this house. (Photos from Dec 23, 2003 - in the dead of winter - it's prettier in the summer, except for the weather.)

Here is what I think is the garage, or possibly stable house

It looks like there is a second story exterior door in this building - yikes!!! I have nightmares about doors like this!

I'm not sure why there would be a chimney in the garage.

Aerial view from Google.

This house is in Watch Hill, RI, such a beautiful village in the town of Westerly. We have lived near here for many years. Wickford is such a gem; the quintessential New England town. Just a living history book.

I see you actually noted that this house was in WH upthread mtn! Hadn’t seen that before;)!

I run by this house regularly and have always admired it from the outside. It was recently for sale and I have to say, I was so disappointed when I looked at the listing photos and saw what they did with the inside. A good friend of mine lives nearby and she told me that her friends just bought it and plan to make a lot of changes.

Here is the view from the porch.

So many beautiful homes! Maybe just a beautiful setting is all that’s really needed... Weekapaug, RI