Dr. Charles Cotton House

	Dr. Charles Cotton House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. National Historic Landmark District; Contributing Property
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Location	Newport, Rhode Island
Coordinates	41°29′18″N 71°18′53″W / 41.48833°N 71.31472°WCoordinates: 41°29′18″N 71°18′53″W / 41.48833°N 71.31472°W
Area	Less than one acre
Part of	Newport Historic District (ID68000001)
NRHP reference No.	72000026
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	January 13, 1972
Designated NHLDCP	November 24, 1968

The Dr. Charles Cotton House is an historic house at 5 Cotton Court in Newport, Rhode Island. It is one of the city's oldest houses.

It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney and a hipped roof. The original portion of the house was built around 1720 with large Georgian style additions in the 18th century and modifications in the nineteenth century.

Dr. Charles Cotton, a great-grandson of Josiah Cotton and surgeon aboard the USS Constitution, owned the house in the early 19th century and gave the house its current name.^[2] The Cotton House was taken by eminent domain by the Newport Restoration Foundation in 1974 from the Cotton family who owned the house for 157 years. The Foundation moved the house in 1977 from its original location across the adjoining parking lot. The house was restored from 1979 to 1980. The site added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

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Newport Restoration Foundation information

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "NRHP nomination for Dr. Charles Cotton House" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-11-05.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[NRHP-2] "NRHP nomination for Dr. Charles Cotton House" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-11-05.

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Dr. Charles Cotton House

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