This rather grand five-bay, two-and-one-half-story farmhouse is made grander by its elevation on an earth platform. Owners' houses of this size are characteristic of the very large farms established in southern coastal Rhode Island during the eighteenth century. That they were known at the time as “plantations” in itself suggests their scale. Today subdivision colonial crowds the real thing.
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