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Provide an email addressThis article attempts to list the oldest buildings in the state of Rhode Island in the United States of America, including the oldest houses in Rhode Island and any other surviving structures. Some dates are approximate and based on architectural studies and historical records, other dates are based on dendrochronology. All entries should include citation with reference to: architectural features; a report by an architectural historian; or dendrochronology.
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Very few Rhode Island buildings have been tested yet using dendrochronology (less than a dozen houses as of 2019),[1] and most buildings outside of Aquidneck Island were burned in King Philip's War in the 1670s. The oldest building in Rhode Island tested using dendrochronology was the Clemence-Irons House (1691) in Johnston, although the Lucas–Johnston House in Newport holds some timbers which were felled prior to 1650, but likely reused from an earlier building.[2]
List[edit]
| Building | Location | First Built | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Governor Peleg Sanford House | Newport, Rhode Island | ca. 1640s-1701 | one of the oldest buildings in Newport, and constructed before the death of Gov. Sanford in 1701[3] Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| White Horse Tavern | Newport, Rhode Island | 1652/1673 | Oldest tavern in America, originally built in 1652 as a residence and expanded into a tavern in 1673, likely including parts of the original structure[4] Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Stephen Northup House | North Kingstown, Rhode Island | c. 1660–1661 (possibly rebuilt in 1670s) | possibly burned during King Philip's War in the 1670s and rebuilt, later modifications 1712, 1850, 2004. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Newport Tower | Newport, Rhode Island | c. 1670 or pre-1492 | Speculated to be a Viking structure[5] or colonial windmill.[6] No roof or floors since the mid-18th century. Radiocarbon dating tests of the tower's mortar suggest a probable date of production of the mortar between 1635 and 1698.[7] |
| Philip Sherman House | Portsmouth, Rhode Island | c. 1670 | House of one of the founders of Portsmouth, RI. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Thomas Fenner House | Cranston, Rhode Island | 1677 | early stone ender. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Edward Searle House | Cranston, Rhode Island | 1670–1720 | early stone ender. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Capt. John Mawdsley House | Newport, Rhode Island | c. 1677–1680 | with a large 18th-century modification. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Smith's Castle | Wickford, Rhode Island | 1678 | house museum, site of Roger Williams trading post, National Historic Landmark. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Clement Weaver House | East Greenwich, Rhode Island | 1679 | early stone ender.[8] Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| John Bliss House | Newport, Rhode Island | c. 1680 | early stone ender |
| Forge Farm | Warwick, Rhode Island | 1684 | oldest part of house dates to 1684. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Daggett House | Pawtucket, Rhode Island | 1685 | oldest house in Pawtucket. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Gorton-Greene House | Warwick, Rhode Island | 1685 | Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Palmer-Northrup House | North Kingstown, Rhode Island | c. 1685 | Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Hopelands | Warwick, Rhode Island | c. 1686 | western ell of building, dates to 1686, now part of Rocky Hill School. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Peleg Arnold Tavern | North Smithfield, Rhode Island | c. 1690 | home of Peleg Arnold. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Wilbor House | Little Compton, Rhode Island | 1690 | oldest house in Little Compton. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Clemence-Irons House | Johnston, Rhode Island | 1691 | primitive stone ender, oldest house in Rhode Island, which has been dated using dendrochronology, in 2005.[9] |
| Samuel Clarke House and Farm | Kenyon, Rhode Island | 1691 | Retains original exterior wide oak weatherboards – on the north side, early 18th-century window sash and frames, a granite central chimney with four fireplaces and original period interior architectural detail. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Eleazer Arnold House | Lincoln, Rhode Island | c. 1693 | National Historic Landmark; Dated using dendrochronology in 2005.[10] |
| Valentine Whitman House | Lincoln, Rhode Island | 1694 | early stone ender. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Smith-Appleby House | Smithfield, Rhode Island | 1696 | House Museum. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House | Newport, Rhode Island | 1697 | One of the oldest houses in Newport, currently a museum. Dated using dendrochronology in 2005.[11] |
| Great Friends Meeting House | Newport, Rhode Island | 1699 | Quaker Meeting House, oldest surviving church building in Rhode Island. Dated to 1699 using dendrochronology.[12] |
| Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery | 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. |
| Samuel E. Perry House | South Kingstown, RI | 1696–1716. Foundation purportedly dates from 1661. | Private home located on Matunuck Schoolhouse Rd[13] |
| Nathaniel Daggett House | East Providence, Rhode Island | ca. 1700 | Likely oldest house in East Providence |
| Perry-Carpenter Grist Mill | South Kingstown, Rhode Island | 1703 | Located in Matunuck[13][14] |
| Six Principle Baptist Church | North Kingstown, Rhode Island | 1703 | oldest Baptist church building in RI, possibly oldest Baptist church building in the U.S. |
| Saylesville Meetinghouse | Lincoln, Rhode Island | 1704 | Possibly oldest church building in Providence County, RI |
| Old Narragansett Church | Wickford, Rhode Island | 1707 | oldest surviving colonial Episcopal church in Northern USA |
| Governor Stephen Hopkins House | Providence, RI | 1708, 1742 | Oldest extant home in Providence. |
| Dr. Charles Cotton House | Newport, RI | c. 1720 | Dr. Charles Cotton, a great-grandson of Josiah Cotton and surgeon aboard the USS Constitution, owned the house in the early 19th century. |
| Peter Greene House | Warwick, Rhode Island | c. 1720–1750 | |
| Henry Palmer House | South Kingstown, RI | 1721 | Private home in East Matunuck. Located on Old Succotash Rd.[13] |
| Carr-LeValley House | West Warwick, Rhode Island | 1722 | Possibly oldest building in West Warwick, RI |
| Phillip Walker House | East Providence, Rhode Island | 1724 | Research site used by Roger Williams University. Dated to 1724 using tree ring dendrochronology.[15] |
| Trinity Episcopal Church | Newport, Rhode Island | 1726 | Oldest Parish in Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island |
| Captain John Warren House | Newport, Rhode Island | 1737 | French Navy Artillery Headquarters 1780–1781[16] |
| Gilbert Stuart Birthplace | Saunderstown, RI | 1750 | Birthplace of Gilbert Stuart, one of 18th-century America's most noted master portrait artists. Stuart is best known for his unfinished Athenaeum portrait of George Washington (seen on the US one dollar bill). |
| Willow Dell (Weeden Farm House) | South Kingstown, RI | 1753 | Located in Matunuck[13] |
| Rocky Meadows Farm House | South Kingstown, RI | 1754 | Rumored to have been a tavern. Private home located on Old Post Road (Route 1)[13] The farm land is now protected by the South Kingstown Land Trust.[17] |
| Henry Marchant House | South Kingstown, RI | pre 1760 | Located off of South County Trail (Route 2). Henry Marchant was Rhode Island's Attorney General from 1771 to 1777. Between 1777 and 1780, he represented Rhode Island in the Continental Congress. After the Revolution, Marchant served in the Rhode Island General Assembly.[13] |
| Touro Synagogue | Newport, Rhode Island | 1759–1763 | Oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States |
| Prudence Island Light | Portsmouth (Prudence Island) | 1824 | Oldest lighthouse tower in Rhode Island; Moved from original location on Goat Island in Newport to Prudence Island at a later date |
| Poplar Point Light | North Kingstown | 1832 | Oldest wooden lighthouse tower still standing in the United States |
Destroyed early Rhode Island buildings[edit]
Henry Bull House, c. 1639, was destroyed by fire in December 1912. This Newport house was allegedly the oldest house in Rhode Island until its destruction.
Governor William Coddington House, a stone ender in Newport built in 1640–1641, was razed in 1835.
Roger Mowry Tavern, built c. 1653, demolished in 1900 for the construction of a triple decker
Colonial president John Smith was a stonemason, and built his stone 'castle' in Warwick before 1663. It was razed in 1779.[18]
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See also[edit]
- Henry Bull House, c. 1639 possibly oldest house in RI until demolished in 1912)
- Roger Mowry Tavern, c. 1653 possibly oldest house in RI until demolished in 1900)
Notes[edit]
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/ri.html
- ^[1]
- ^https://www.historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWQI_the-colony-house_Newport-RI.html
- ^Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America – Page 1036, by James D. Kornwolf, Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf (2002)
- ^, but 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.
- ^'The History and Mystery of the Old Stone Mill'. The Journal of the Newport Historical Society. 68 (2). 1997.
- ^See also http://www.c1679.com
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/cih.html
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/eal.html
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/wlh.html
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/nfm-1.html
- ^ abcdefHistoric and Architectural Resources of South Kingstown, Rhode Island: A Preliminary Report(PDF). 150 Benefit St Providence, RI 02903: Rhode Island Historic Preservation Commission. 1984. pp. 21, 23, 103, 109, 133, 141, 146.CS1 maint: location (link)
- ^'Grist Mill Repairs complete thanks to Foundation & Individual Grants'. sklt.org. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/WHP-1.html
- ^'Captain John Warren House'. Colonial America. Northeast Communications, LLC. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ^'South Kingstown Land Trust'.
- ^Bicknell, Thomas Williams (1920). The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Vol.3. New York: The American Historical Society. pp. 1014–1025. OCLC1953313.
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Provide an email addressThis article attempts to list the oldest buildings in the state of Rhode Island in the United States of America, including the oldest houses in Rhode Island and any other surviving structures. Some dates are approximate and based on architectural studies and historical records, other dates are based on dendrochronology. All entries should include citation with reference to: architectural features; a report by an architectural historian; or dendrochronology.
Popular Dating Sites South Kingstown Rhode Island Rhode Island
Very few Rhode Island buildings have been tested yet using dendrochronology (less than a dozen houses as of 2019),[1] and most buildings outside of Aquidneck Island were burned in King Philip's War in the 1670s. The oldest building in Rhode Island tested using dendrochronology was the Clemence-Irons House (1691) in Johnston, although the Lucas–Johnston House in Newport holds some timbers which were felled prior to 1650, but likely reused from an earlier building.[2]
List[edit]
| Building | Location | First Built | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Governor Peleg Sanford House | Newport, Rhode Island | ca. 1640s-1701 | one of the oldest buildings in Newport, and constructed before the death of Gov. Sanford in 1701[3] Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| White Horse Tavern | Newport, Rhode Island | 1652/1673 | Oldest tavern in America, originally built in 1652 as a residence and expanded into a tavern in 1673, likely including parts of the original structure[4] Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Stephen Northup House | North Kingstown, Rhode Island | c. 1660–1661 (possibly rebuilt in 1670s) | possibly burned during King Philip's War in the 1670s and rebuilt, later modifications 1712, 1850, 2004. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Newport Tower | Newport, Rhode Island | c. 1670 or pre-1492 | Speculated to be a Viking structure[5] or colonial windmill.[6] No roof or floors since the mid-18th century. Radiocarbon dating tests of the tower's mortar suggest a probable date of production of the mortar between 1635 and 1698.[7] |
| Philip Sherman House | Portsmouth, Rhode Island | c. 1670 | House of one of the founders of Portsmouth, RI. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Thomas Fenner House | Cranston, Rhode Island | 1677 | early stone ender. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Edward Searle House | Cranston, Rhode Island | 1670–1720 | early stone ender. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Capt. John Mawdsley House | Newport, Rhode Island | c. 1677–1680 | with a large 18th-century modification. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Smith's Castle | Wickford, Rhode Island | 1678 | house museum, site of Roger Williams trading post, National Historic Landmark. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Clement Weaver House | East Greenwich, Rhode Island | 1679 | early stone ender.[8] Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| John Bliss House | Newport, Rhode Island | c. 1680 | early stone ender |
| Forge Farm | Warwick, Rhode Island | 1684 | oldest part of house dates to 1684. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Daggett House | Pawtucket, Rhode Island | 1685 | oldest house in Pawtucket. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Gorton-Greene House | Warwick, Rhode Island | 1685 | Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Palmer-Northrup House | North Kingstown, Rhode Island | c. 1685 | Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Hopelands | Warwick, Rhode Island | c. 1686 | western ell of building, dates to 1686, now part of Rocky Hill School. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Peleg Arnold Tavern | North Smithfield, Rhode Island | c. 1690 | home of Peleg Arnold. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Wilbor House | Little Compton, Rhode Island | 1690 | oldest house in Little Compton. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Clemence-Irons House | Johnston, Rhode Island | 1691 | primitive stone ender, oldest house in Rhode Island, which has been dated using dendrochronology, in 2005.[9] |
| Samuel Clarke House and Farm | Kenyon, Rhode Island | 1691 | Retains original exterior wide oak weatherboards – on the north side, early 18th-century window sash and frames, a granite central chimney with four fireplaces and original period interior architectural detail. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Eleazer Arnold House | Lincoln, Rhode Island | c. 1693 | National Historic Landmark; Dated using dendrochronology in 2005.[10] |
| Valentine Whitman House | Lincoln, Rhode Island | 1694 | early stone ender. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Smith-Appleby House | Smithfield, Rhode Island | 1696 | House Museum. Not tested yet using dendrochronology. |
| Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House | Newport, Rhode Island | 1697 | One of the oldest houses in Newport, currently a museum. Dated using dendrochronology in 2005.[11] |
| Great Friends Meeting House | Newport, Rhode Island | 1699 | Quaker Meeting House, oldest surviving church building in Rhode Island. Dated to 1699 using dendrochronology.[12] |
| Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery | 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. |
| Samuel E. Perry House | South Kingstown, RI | 1696–1716. Foundation purportedly dates from 1661. | Private home located on Matunuck Schoolhouse Rd[13] |
| Nathaniel Daggett House | East Providence, Rhode Island | ca. 1700 | Likely oldest house in East Providence |
| Perry-Carpenter Grist Mill | South Kingstown, Rhode Island | 1703 | Located in Matunuck[13][14] |
| Six Principle Baptist Church | North Kingstown, Rhode Island | 1703 | oldest Baptist church building in RI, possibly oldest Baptist church building in the U.S. |
| Saylesville Meetinghouse | Lincoln, Rhode Island | 1704 | Possibly oldest church building in Providence County, RI |
| Old Narragansett Church | Wickford, Rhode Island | 1707 | oldest surviving colonial Episcopal church in Northern USA |
| Governor Stephen Hopkins House | Providence, RI | 1708, 1742 | Oldest extant home in Providence. |
| Dr. Charles Cotton House | Newport, RI | c. 1720 | Dr. Charles Cotton, a great-grandson of Josiah Cotton and surgeon aboard the USS Constitution, owned the house in the early 19th century. |
| Peter Greene House | Warwick, Rhode Island | c. 1720–1750 | |
| Henry Palmer House | South Kingstown, RI | 1721 | Private home in East Matunuck. Located on Old Succotash Rd.[13] |
| Carr-LeValley House | West Warwick, Rhode Island | 1722 | Possibly oldest building in West Warwick, RI |
| Phillip Walker House | East Providence, Rhode Island | 1724 | Research site used by Roger Williams University. Dated to 1724 using tree ring dendrochronology.[15] |
| Trinity Episcopal Church | Newport, Rhode Island | 1726 | Oldest Parish in Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island |
| Captain John Warren House | Newport, Rhode Island | 1737 | French Navy Artillery Headquarters 1780–1781[16] |
| Gilbert Stuart Birthplace | Saunderstown, RI | 1750 | Birthplace of Gilbert Stuart, one of 18th-century America's most noted master portrait artists. Stuart is best known for his unfinished Athenaeum portrait of George Washington (seen on the US one dollar bill). |
| Willow Dell (Weeden Farm House) | South Kingstown, RI | 1753 | Located in Matunuck[13] |
| Rocky Meadows Farm House | South Kingstown, RI | 1754 | Rumored to have been a tavern. Private home located on Old Post Road (Route 1)[13] The farm land is now protected by the South Kingstown Land Trust.[17] |
| Henry Marchant House | South Kingstown, RI | pre 1760 | Located off of South County Trail (Route 2). Henry Marchant was Rhode Island's Attorney General from 1771 to 1777. Between 1777 and 1780, he represented Rhode Island in the Continental Congress. After the Revolution, Marchant served in the Rhode Island General Assembly.[13] |
| Touro Synagogue | Newport, Rhode Island | 1759–1763 | Oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States |
| Prudence Island Light | Portsmouth (Prudence Island) | 1824 | Oldest lighthouse tower in Rhode Island; Moved from original location on Goat Island in Newport to Prudence Island at a later date |
| Poplar Point Light | North Kingstown | 1832 | Oldest wooden lighthouse tower still standing in the United States |
Destroyed early Rhode Island buildings[edit]
Henry Bull House, c. 1639, was destroyed by fire in December 1912. This Newport house was allegedly the oldest house in Rhode Island until its destruction.
Governor William Coddington House, a stone ender in Newport built in 1640–1641, was razed in 1835.
Roger Mowry Tavern, built c. 1653, demolished in 1900 for the construction of a triple decker
Colonial president John Smith was a stonemason, and built his stone 'castle' in Warwick before 1663. It was razed in 1779.[18]
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See also[edit]
- Henry Bull House, c. 1639 possibly oldest house in RI until demolished in 1912)
- Roger Mowry Tavern, c. 1653 possibly oldest house in RI until demolished in 1900)
Notes[edit]
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/ri.html
- ^[1]
- ^https://www.historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMWQI_the-colony-house_Newport-RI.html
- ^Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America – Page 1036, by James D. Kornwolf, Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf (2002)
- ^, but 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.
- ^'The History and Mystery of the Old Stone Mill'. The Journal of the Newport Historical Society. 68 (2). 1997.
- ^See also http://www.c1679.com
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/cih.html
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/eal.html
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/wlh.html
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/nfm-1.html
- ^ abcdefHistoric and Architectural Resources of South Kingstown, Rhode Island: A Preliminary Report(PDF). 150 Benefit St Providence, RI 02903: Rhode Island Historic Preservation Commission. 1984. pp. 21, 23, 103, 109, 133, 141, 146.CS1 maint: location (link)
- ^'Grist Mill Repairs complete thanks to Foundation & Individual Grants'. sklt.org. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
- ^https://www.dendrochronology.com/WHP-1.html
- ^'Captain John Warren House'. Colonial America. Northeast Communications, LLC. Retrieved 18 August 2016.
- ^'South Kingstown Land Trust'.
- ^Bicknell, Thomas Williams (1920). The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Vol.3. New York: The American Historical Society. pp. 1014–1025. OCLC1953313.
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