List of the oldest buildings in Rhode Island

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This article attempts to list the oldest extant buildings surviving in the state of Rhode Island in the United States of America, including the oldest houses in Rhode Island and any other surviving structures. In the 1670s, most buildings, other than those on Aquidneck Island, were burned and destroyed during King Philip's War. Some dates are approximate and based upon dendochronology, architectural studies, and historical records.

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Building Location First Built Notes
Stephen Northup House 100px North Kingstown, Rhode Island ca. 1660-1661 (possibly rebuilt) possibly burned during King Philip's War in the 1670s and rebuilt, later modifications 1712, 1850, 2004
Newport Tower (Rhode Island) DSCN3887 newporttower e.jpg Newport, Rhode Island ca. 1670 or pre-1492 Viking structure[1] or colonial windmill.[2] No roof or floors since the mid-18th century
Philip Sherman House 100px Portsmouth, Rhode Island 1670 moved from original location c. 1850; major renovation 1987-1990[3]
White Horse Tavern (Rhode Island) White Horse Tavern Newport.JPG Newport, Rhode Island 1673 Oldest tavern in America[4]
Thomas Fenner House 100px Cranston, Rhode Island 1677 early stone ender
Edward Searle House Edward Searle House.jpg Cranston, Rhode Island 1670-1720 early stone ender
Capt. John Mawdsley House 100px Newport, Rhode Island ca. 1677–1680 with a large 18th century modification
Smith's Castle Smith's Castle, Wickford, RI.jpg Wickford, Rhode Island 1678 house museum, site of Roger Williams trading post, National Historic Landmark
Phillip Walker House 100px East Providence, Rhode Island 1679 research site used by Roger Williams University
Clement Weaver House Clement Weaver House Daniel Howland House in East Greenwich RI.jpg East Greenwich, Rhode Island 1679 early stone ender.

See also http://www.c1679.com
John Bliss House Bliss House Newport.JPG Newport, Rhode Island ca.1680 early stone ender
Forge Farm 100px Warwick, Rhode Island 1684 oldest part of house dates to 1684
Daggett House 100px Pawtucket, Rhode Island 1685 oldest house in Pawtucket
Gorton-Greene House Gorton-Greene House in Warwick Rhode Island built around 1685.jpg Warwick, Rhode Island 1685
Palmer-Northrup House 100px North Kingstown, Rhode Island ca.1685
Hopelands 100px Warwick, Rhode Island ca.1686 western ell of building, dates to 1686, now part of Rocky Hill School
Peleg Arnold Tavern Peleg Arnold tavern North Smithfield RI.JPG North Smithfield, Rhode Island ca. 1690 home of Peleg Arnold
Wilbor House 100px Little Compton, Rhode Island 1690 oldest house in Little Compton
Clemence-Irons House IronsHouse.JPG Johnston, Rhode Island 1691 primitive stone ender
Eleazer Arnold House Stone ender.JPG Lincoln, Rhode Island ca. 1693 National Historic Landmark
Valentine Whitman House ValentineWhitman.JPG Lincoln, Rhode Island 1694 early stone ender
Smith-Appleby House 100px Smithfield, Rhode Island 1696 museum
Wanton-Lyman-Hazard House 100px Newport, Rhode Island 1697 one of the oldest houses in Newport, currently a museum
Great Friends Meeting House 100px Newport, Rhode Island 1699 Quaker Meeting House, oldest surviving church building in Rhode Island
Portsmouth Friends Meetinghouse Parsonage and Cemetery 100px 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
Six Principle Baptist Church Six Principle Baptist Church North Kingstown RI.jpg North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1703 oldest Baptist church building in RI
Saylesville Meetinghouse 100px Lincoln, Rhode Island 1704 Possibly oldest church building in Providence County, RI
Old Narragansett Church Old Narragansett Church Episcopal in Wickford Rhode Island.jpg Wickford, Rhode Island 1707 oldest surviving colonial Episcopal church in Northern USA
Trinity Episcopal Church Exterior of Trinity Church, Newport, RI.jpg Newport, Rhode Island 1726 Oldest Parish in Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island
Touro Synagogue Touro external.png Newport, Rhode Island 1759-63 Oldest surviving synagogue building in the United States

Destroyed early Rhode Island buildings

  • Henry Bull House, ca. 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 1640-41, was razed in 1835.

  • Roger Mowry Tavern in Providence Rhode Island.jpg

    Roger Mowry Tavern, built ca. 1653, demolished in 1900 for the construction of a triple decker

  • Smith.john.stone.castle.jpg

    Colonial president John Smith was a stonemason, and built his stone "castle" in Warwick before 1663. It was razed in 1779.[5]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ There is no archaeological or documentary evidence for this, but the theory has persisted since the early 19th century
  2. ↑ William F. McNeil, "Visitors to Ancient America" (McFarland: 2004), 78.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Architecture and Town Planning in Colonial North America - Page 1036 by James D. Kornwolf, Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf (2002)
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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