The U.S. Weather Bureau Station is a historic former weather station on Beach Avenue on Block Island, Rhode Island. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a flat roof surrounded by a low balustrade. There is a full-width porch across the front, supported by grouped columns. The Classical Revival building was designed by Harding & Upman, and constructed in 1903, replacing a station destroyed by fire the previous year. It originally had meteorological instruments mounted on the roof and the grounds, and was used as a weather station by the US Weather Bureau (predecessor of the modern National Weather Service) until 1950. It was then converted for use as a summer tourist residence.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Rhode Island
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