The White House Hospital (Including Flanking Wings)

The White House Hospital, originally built in 1903, was designed by Romaine Walker as a summer home for the Walker-Munro family. The design incorporates nautical themes, including porthole windows on the south elevation, a “lighthouse” tower on the north elevation, and a central “bridge” room. Originally featuring a bronze galleon weathervane and lifeboats suspended on davits, the house is two storeys with roughcast walls and slate roofs, distinguished by wide bracketed eaves and battered stacks. The main, northeast-facing elevation incorporates a central "bridge" room with a pyramidal roof and a horizontal strip of mullioned windows at eaves level, above a pedimented entrance with a horseshoe-shaped arch and two upper-floor windows. A polygonal “lighthouse” tower adjoins to the northeast, featuring single-light windows and a horizontal window strip under a polygonal roof. A rectangular projection on the northwest side has two-light casements, while a semicircular two-storey tower to the northeast features single-light windows and wide bracketed eaves. The seaward elevation includes a terrace wall with portholes and steps, leading to sash windows and doorways, and a central, rectangular “bridge” room wing with a horizontal window strip above a central, arched doorway flanked by sash windows. The original open-sided flanking wings have been enclosed with 20th-century windows and terminate in taller, pyramidally-hipped end pavilions.