Except for its attic gables, the earliest house extant on the waterfront is of brick instead of the usual clapboard, with large central chimney. It has a plain transomed door and narrow windows with tops abutting a blunt belt course downstairs and the eaves upstairs. James Maxwell, who was born here, after the Revolution became one of Warren's leading shipowners and merchants.
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