South Kingstown ยท Matunuck
Admiral Dewey Inn
George and Etta Champlin's 1898 beach boarding house in Matunuck, which the National Register calls a rare example of a vanishing building type.
- Built
- 1898Built 1898 by George and Etta Champlin as a beach boarding-house hotel (NRHP nomination; inn).
- Style
- Late Victorian
- Type
- Inn
- Area
- Matunuck
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
George and Etta Champlin built the beach boarding house in 1898 and named it for Admiral George Dewey, victor at Manila Bay that year. Its advertisements offered ‘good rooms and table board’, and carriages met the trains at Wakefield; in Matunuck’s heyday (1898-1925) as many as 500 visitors a day reached the beach. The National Register nomination calls it a rare example of a vanishing building type, the seaside boarding-house hotel. The Matunuck Group now runs it with updated rooms.
Good to know
- Address: 668 Matunuck Beach Road, South Kingstown, RI 02879
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.