Reedy Island Officers House

Photographed by Pete Skillman, June 19, 2025

1. Reedy Island Officers House Marker

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Two of the remaining houses on the block were, like the Commodore's house, floated on barges to Port Penn following the closing of the Quarantine Station on Reedy Island. Situated side-by-side, both houses are squared, double-pile structures capped with pyramidal roofs sheathed with raised seam rooled sheet metal and

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terminated by small-windowed monitors at the peak. Both houses also have flat, flared, hip roof porches and rear one-story lean-to additions. The house to the south is a story-and-a-half in elevation with the half-story decorated with vertical sawn work trim.

Two other houses in Port Penn proper also were brought from Reedy Island. “Situated side-by-side, both houses are squared, double-pile structures [2-rooms deep] capped with pyramidal roofs sheathed with raised seam tooled sheet metal and terminated by small-windowed monitors at the peak. Both houses also have flat, flared, hip roof porches and rear one-story lean-to additions.” [15]

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The second house is right next door at 113 South Congress Street (Fig. 4). Known as the Reedy Island Officer’s House, here “we see a more modest scale than the Commodore's, suitable for lower level government officials. The hipped roof with a glazed monitor on top is a common feature used to survey approaching ships from a protected space. Here, small paired windows are hung directly beneath the wide eaves and the white weatherboard is laid in a vertical pattern with a saw-tooth pattern at the bottom of the slats.” [18]