The Clingstone House on Narragansett Bay
Clingstone is a 10,000 square foot mansion located on a small rocky island on Narragansett Bay, RI. For the past fifty years the house has been owned by architect Henry Wood, a distant cousin of J. S. Lovering Wharton, who built the house in 1905 as an act of defiance when his land was seized by the government to build Fort Wetherhill in Jamestown.
An early sketch of Clingstone. J. S. Lovering Wharton built a house of picture windows, and drew its sightlines with an artist friend.
Over the years Wood has worked to make Clingstone “green,” or sustainable, from the windmill on the roof to the composting toilets. The windmill provides electricity. Solar panels heat water for household use.
Clingstone is a great example of how with a little work, even a one hundred and six year old house can become more sustainable.
