Captain Daniel Arnold House - North Smithfield RI
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nomadwillie
N 41° 59.417 W 071° 32.096
19T E 290024 N 4651805
Built in 1714, the house is one of the oldest home in Union Village.
Waymark Code: WMQXMN
Location: Rhode Island, United States
Date Posted: 04/11/2016
Views: 3
The Captain Daniel Arnold House (not open), 76 Great Rd., is a large white frame structure (1714), two and one-half stories high, with an addition on one end and a porch on the other that are obviously recent changes. The main entrance is protected by a gabled-roof portico supported by two Doric columns. Set amid trees, shrubbery, and trelliswork, this house has a stately and charming appearance. The original stone doorsteps have been perserved. The Arnold House has also been much altered. About 1800 the front porch was added, of unusual type for this vicinity; it is of ample depth and width, with a pedimented roof and a plastered ceiling. The door is framed with rusticated wood blocks to resemble stone, in contrast with the clapboard siding of the exterior.
p.379 Rhode Island - A Guide to the Smallest State, 1937
Sits back from the road quite a ways. It is a simple square looking house painted white with a porch protecting the front door. The area was settled by two families, the Arnolds and Comstocks, of which Daniel Arnold is a decendent. This house was built by Walter Allen, the master builder in the area. Other than the porch added in the 1800's and out of character for the era, the door way has architecture rustication detail, as well as, a fanlight.
Book: Rhode Island
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 379
Year Originally Published: 1937
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