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Eleazer Arnold House
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The Eleazer Arnold House is a historic American house built by Eleazor Arnold in 1693, and located at 487 Great Road, Lincoln, Rhode Island. It is now a National Historic Landmark owned by Historic New England, and open to public two afternoons per year.
The house is a relatively large "stone-ender," once a common building type originating in the western part of England, but now rare in New England. 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, the structure also had a gable, though it may not have been original.
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.
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.
- Historic New England
- Clemence-Irons House, another nearby Rhode Island stone-ender
- List of Registered Historic Places in Rhode Island