Eighteenth-Century Dutch Farmhouse, Benefit Street

Eighteenth-Century Dutch Farmhouse, Benefit Street

This late eighteenth-century Dutch gambrel-roofed farmhouse stood on Chalkstone Ave. where the parking lot to Roger Williams Hospital stands. Angela Brown Fischer, daughter of John Brown (d. 1979) moved this house opposite the Nightingale-Brown House at 357 Benefit St. (1791). John Brown owned this land and preferred a view from his house across the city without impediment. The house is set back from the street because it is a farm house and not original to the urban architecture of Benefit St. The interior has been renovated.

Chester Smolski

Wm McKenzie Woodward oral interview conducted August 4, 2010 @ RIC Adams Library.

1983-01-01

Rhode Island College

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Dutch Colonial

Providence

United States of America

Angela Brown Fischer; Historic buildings -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Architecture, Domestic -- Rhode Island -- Providence; Architecture, Modern -- 18th century -- Rhode Island -- Providence Urban Redevelopment

Rhode Island

360 Benefit St.