Built 1754 Boundary increase Architectural style American Colonial | NRHP Reference # 76000046 Opened 1754 Added to NRHP 8 October 1976 | |
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Similar Governor Henry Lippitt Ho, Roger Williams Park, Roger Williams Park Zoo, Touro Synagogue, White Horse Tavern | ||
The Jeremiah Dexter House is an historic colonial house at 957 North Main Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a 1-1/2 story gambrel-roofed wood frame structure, built in 1754 for printer Jeremiah Dexter on farm land that was originally granted to his ancestor Gregory Dexter, a friend and printer for Roger Williams. It is five bays wide, with a large central chimney typical of the period, and is one of the few surviving colonial-era farmhouses in the city. The Dexter farm is further notable as the site where French Army troops were stationed upon their return from Virginia in 1782, during the American Revolutionary War. The paved parking lot which surrounds the house on two sides is believed to contain archaeological remains of the French camp.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.