In strong contrast to the Greek Revival, the Gothic Revival enjoyed limited popularity in Providence in domestic architecture, and this is one of a very small number of mid-19th-century examples. Most of them, like this, are rather timid, as well, with little more than some iconic detailing to distinguish them as Gothic. The basic 3-bay-façade, center-hall-plan format is one seen on several other houses on this tour in a variety of stylistic guises. Gothic detailing on the exterior includes the 1-story entrance porch, with its polygonal plan columns and pierced quatrefoil balustrade and the steep-pitched central dormer with lancet-arch attic window.

Noyes, a cashier at the Globe Bank, located Downtown, lived here only briefly.

— 2006 Festival of Historic Houses Guidebook

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John L. Noyes house, 1843-1847. Early Victorian: 2-1/2 stories; clapboard; hipped roof with a steep central gable; pointed-arched attic light with Gothic tracery in gable; symmetrical 3 bay facade with Italianate window caps; central pillared entrance portico with open Gothic balustrade.

— College Hill National Historic District; 1976