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Joseph Briggs House–Coventry Town Farm

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Location
  
Coventry, Rhode Island

NRHP Reference #
  
87000997

Area
  
8,094 m²

Built
  
1790

Opened
  
1790

Added to NRHP
  
18 June 1987

Joseph Briggs House–Coventry Town Farm

Architectural styles
  
Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture

The Joseph Briggs House, also known as the Coventry Town Farm, is an historic house at 195 Town Farm Road in Coventry, Rhode Island. The main block of the house, a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, was built c. 1790 by Joseph Briggs, and the property was purchased from his heirs in 1851 by the town for use as a poor farm. The town added a two-story ell to the rear of the house to provide additional housing space. The property is one of the few such poor farms to remain relatively intact. The farm was closed in the 1930s, after which the property fell into decline. It has since been rehabilitated as a two-family residence.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

References

Joseph Briggs House–Coventry Town Farm Wikipedia