Location Lincoln, Rhode Island NRHP Reference # 68000006 Designated CP July 22, 1974 Area 2,024 m² Architectural style American Colonial | Built ca. 1693 Designated NHL November 24, 1968 Opened 1687 Phone +1 401-728-9696 Added to NRHP 24 November 1968 | |
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Part of Great Road Historic District (#74000051) Address 487 Great Rd, Lincoln, RI 02865, USA Similar Hearthside, Clemence–Irons House, Israel Arnold House, Great Road Historic District, Lincoln Woods State Park | ||
1693 eleazer arnold stone ender house museum in lincoln ri
The Eleazer Arnold House is a historic house built for Eleazer 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 the public on weekends.
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.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1968, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974 for its architectural significance.
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.