List of the oldest buildings in Rhode Island
- List of the oldest buildings in Rhode Island
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See also: Oldest buildings in America
This article attempts to list the oldest extant buildings surviving in the state of Rhode Island in the United States of America, including the oldest houses in Rhode Island and any other surviving structures. In the 1670s, most buildings, other than those on Aquidneck Island, were burned and destroyed during King Philip's War. Some dates are approximate and based upon dendochronology, architectural studies, and historical records.
List
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| Building |
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Location |
First Built |
Notes |
| Stephen Northrup House |
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North Kingstown, Rhode Island |
ca. 1660-1661 (possibly rebuilt) |
possibly burned during King Philip's War in 1670s and rebuilt, later modifications 1712, 1850, 2004 |
| Benjamin Hammond Grist Mill (adjacent to Gilbert Stuart Birthplace) |
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Saunderstown, Rhode Island/Richmond, Rhode Island |
1662 (largely rebuilt) |
early grist mill, partially restored, and moved to Saunderstown from Richmond, RI |
| Newport Tower (Rhode Island) |
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Newport, Rhode Island |
ca. 1670 or pre-1492 |
Viking structure[1] or colonial windmill.[2] No roof or floors since the mid-18th century |
| White Horse Tavern (Rhode Island) |
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Newport, Rhode Island |
1673 |
Oldest tavern in America[3] |
| Thomas Fenner House |
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Cranston, Rhode Island |
1677 |
early stone ender |
| Edward Searle House |
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Cranston, Rhode Island |
1677 |
early stone ender |
| Capt. John Mawdsley House |
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Newport, Rhode Island |
ca. 1677–1680 |
with a large 18th century modification |
| Smith's Castle |
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Wickford, Rhode Island |
1678 |
house museum, site of Roger Williams trading post, National Historic Landmark |
| Phillip Walker House |
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East Providence, Rhode Island |
1679 |
research site used by Roger Williams University |
| Clement Weaver House |
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East Greenwich, Rhode Island |
1679 |
early stone ender.
See also http://www.c1679.com
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| John Bliss House |
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Newport, Rhode Island |
ca.1680 |
early stone ender |
| Daggett House |
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Pawtucket, Rhode Island |
1685 |
oldest house in Pawtucket |
| Gorton-Greene House |
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Warwick, Rhode Island |
1685 |
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| Palmer-Northrup House |
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North Kingstown, Rhode Island |
ca.1685 |
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| Peleg Arnold Tavern |
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North Smithfield, Rhode Island |
ca. 1690 |
home of Peleg Arnold |
| Wilbor House |
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Little Compton, Rhode Island |
1690 |
oldest house in Little Compton |
| Clemence-Irons House |
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Johnston, Rhode Island |
1691 |
primitive stone ender |
| Eleazer Arnold House |
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Lincoln, Rhode Island |
ca. 1693 |
National Historic Landmark |
| Valentine Whitman House |
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Lincoln, Rhode Island |
1694 |
early stone ender |
| Smith-Appleby House |
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Smithfield, Rhode Island |
1696 |
museum |
| Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House |
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Newport, Rhode Island |
1697 |
one of the oldest houses in Newport, currently a museum |
| Great Friends Meeting House |
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Newport, Rhode Island |
1699 |
Quaker Meeting House, oldest surviving church building in Rhode Island |
| Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery |
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Portsmouth, Rhode Island |
1699-1700 |
Quaker Meeting House, original site of Moses Brown School, likely oldest church building in RI used continuously as a church |
| Six Principle Baptist Church |
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North Kingstown, Rhode Island |
1703 |
oldest Baptist church building in RI |
| Saylesville Meetinghouse |
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Lincoln, Rhode Island |
1704 |
Possibly oldest church building in Providence County, RI |
| Old Narragansett Church |
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Wickford, Rhode Island |
1707 |
oldest surviving colonial Episcopal church in Northern USA |
| Trinity Episcopal Church |
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Newport, Rhode Island |
1726 |
Oldest Parish in Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island |
| Touro Synagogue |
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Newport, Rhode Island |
1759-63 |
Oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States |
Destroyed early Rhode Island buildings
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Henry Bull House, ca. 1639, was demolished after a fire in the early 1900s. This Newport house was allegedly the oldest house in Rhode Island until its destruction.
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Roger Mowry Tavern, built ca. 1653, demolished in 1900 for the construction of a triple decker
See also
Notes
- ^ There is no archaeological or documentary evidence for this, but the theory has persisted since the early 19th century
- ^ William F. McNeil, "Visitors to Ancient America" (McFarland: 2004), 78.
- ^ Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America - Page 1036 by James D. Kornwolf, Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf (2002)
External links
- Clement Weaver House - Oldest House in Rhode Island, (1679) (accessed on June 21, 2008)
- Norman A. Isham & Alber Frederic Brown, Early Rhode Island Houses:, (Preston & Rounds, 1895) (accessed June 21, 2008 on Google Book Search)
- Oldest Houses in South County, (1934) (accessed on June 21, 2008)
- Michael Mello, Providence Journal, "Dating R.I's oldest houses is part science, part art" August 21, 2005
Categories:
- Lists of oldest buildings and structures in the United States
- Buildings and structures in Rhode Island
- Rhode Island-related lists
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