Loring 1929), a pretty Neo-Colonial brick building, originally painted white, by an architect whose libraries for small towns in the Northeast were widely published in the architectural journals of the time (this one in Architectural Record, July 1932). Then, around the corner to the halyard end of the pennant is the Brownell Library (1929, Charles G. They include the present school (in a dreadfully inappropriate building for this location), fire and police departments (the latter partly occupying a Greek Revival church which should be restored), and a fine one-room schoolhouse, now connected to the plain two-story clapboarded Little Compton Town Hall next door.
Compton place buildings full#
Around the tip and along the top edge of the “pennant” is an extraordinarily full range of town institutions. It is more the appropriateness of the building, with some aura of the venerable around the church, and the immediate sense one has of this place as a lively center of town activity that make it engaging.įacing the entrance to the church are renovated Greek Revival and Early Victorian houses and, farther along, a nice bungalow that deserves notice, however incongruous for a New England common. The green contains the burying ground for the United Congregational Church, which stands at one of the halyard corners of the “pennant.” Except for the church, the architecture is not striking.
From one corner the common appears to be of the usual roughly rectangular shape but the town's proprietors laid it out in 1677 on a hillock at the town's center as an elongated triangle-prophetically shaped like a yachting pennant.
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