Saturday, May 21, 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Arnold House, 487 Great Road, Lincoln, R.I. ???? Join Historic New England on a walking tour through historic Saylesville, with stops at Arnold House (1693) and Saylesville Meeting House (1703).
On the 1687 deed from Thomas Arnold to his son Eleazer, he described the land where Arnold House is built as “world’s end.”
Saylesville Meeting House, the oldest continuously used meeting house in Rhode Island, was built on land donated by Eleazer Arnold.
Free to Historic New England members $8 Lincoln residents $10 nonmembers ??
Tour begins at Historic New England???s Arnold House, 487 Great Road, Lincoln.??
Registration is recommended. Please call 401-728-9696 or buy online.
Arnold House (1693): In 1693, Eleazer Arnold, a major landowner, built his house along Great Road, one of the earliest roads in the colonies. Two stories high, with a pilastered chimney, the home so dominated the modest dwellings of nearby farmers that it earned the title ???Eleazer???s Splendid Mansion.????? With its massive chimney end wall, the house is a rare survivor of a once-common Rhode Island building type known as a stone-ender. The structure has sustained many alterations over the centuries. Visitors find evidence of seventeenth-century construction methods, eighteenth-century additions, nineteenth century graffiti, and the twentieth-century approach to preservation that restored the house to its present appearance. Arnold House is located at 487 Great Road. Guided tours are on the hour, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with the last tour at 4:00 p.m.??
Saylesville Meeting House (1703) is one of the oldest continuously used Quaker Meeting Houses in New England and located at 374 Great Road. The Meeting House hosts a book swap and a self-guided tour is available. There are no limits on the amount of books that may be taken or given.