Eleazer Arnold House

Infobox_nrhp | name =Eleazer Arnold House
nrhp_type = nhl


caption = Arnold House, 1691, Lincoln, Rhode Island
location= Lincoln, Rhode Island
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 54
lat_seconds = 10
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 71
long_minutes = 25
long_seconds = 14
long_direction = W
locmapin = Rhode Island
area =
built =1687
architect= Unknown
architecture= Colonial, Other
designated= November 24, 1968cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=763&ResourceType=Building
title=Eleazor Arnold House |accessdate=2008-05-03|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = November 24, 1968cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=68000006The Eleazer Arnold House is a historic house built for Eleazor Arnold in about 1693, and located at 487 Great Road, Lincoln, Rhode Island in the Great Road Historic District. It is now a National Historic Landmark owned by Historic New England, and open to public two afternoons per year.

The house is a relatively large "stone-ender," a building type brought from the western part of England and used most commonly in northern Rhode Island. This geographic-specific aspect may have been due to the attribution of the work to John Smith "the Mason" of Smithfield, Rhode Island and his family. It was built two stories in height, with four rooms on each floor, a lean-to, exposed fieldstone end-walls, wooden side-walls, and a pilastered chimney. By the 20th century, a gable had been added to the structure.

In 1919 the house was donated to Historic New England (then the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities) by Preserved Whipple Arnold. It has since undergone two phases of restoration. In 1920 the first stabilization efforts were led by Norman Isham; and in 1950 the house and chimney received a thorough structural rehabilitation. In this second restoration, later alterations were removed to return the building to its 17th century appearance.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/68000006.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Eleazor Arnold House] |32 KB|date=January 22, 1975 |author=Patricia Heintzelman and Charles Snell|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/68000006.pdf "Accompanying photos, exterior, from 1967 and 1974"] |32 KB]

Today the building closely resembles its form during the early settlement in Rhode Island, though some details, including the leaded glass windows and the front door and its surround, are 20th century replacements.

It is located on State Route 123 near its junction with State Route 126.

References

See also

* Historic New England
* Clemence-Irons House, another nearby Rhode Island stone-ender
* List of Registered Historic Places in Rhode Island

External links

* [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.ri0118 Eleazer Arnold House, Great Road, Lincoln, Providence County, RI: 8 photos, and supplemental material] , at Historic American Building Survey
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=G8SsyztsT3E Video of House]