Windmill Cottage

Infobox_nrhp | name =Windmill Cottage
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caption = Windmill Cottage in 2008
location= East Greenwich, Rhode Island
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 39
lat_seconds = 49
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 71
long_minutes = 27
long_seconds = 23
long_direction = W
locmapin = Rhode Island
area =
built =1790
architect= Unknown
architecture= No Style Listed
added = May 22, 1973
governing_body = Private
refnum=73000051cite 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]

Windmill Cottage is a historic house and windmill at 144 Division Street in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

The house was built around 1790. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow bought the cottage in 1866 for his friend G.W. Green and had a circa 1818 windmill moved to the site in 1870 and attached to the cottage. [ [http://riroads.com/archive/windmillcottage.htm Paul Pence, "Longfellow's Windmill Cottage," "Rhode Island Roads." ] ] The windmill allegedly inspired Longfellow's poem, "The Windmill." [ [http://riroads.com/archive/windmillcottage.htm Paul Pence, "Longfellow's Windmill Cottage," "Rhode Island Roads." ] ] The site was added to the National Historic Register in 1973.cite 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]

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