SILAS CLAPP HOUSE
Silas Clapp House
Taken from Historic and Architectural Resources of West Warwick, Rhode Island: A Preliminary Report. By the RI Historical Preservation Commission. Page 114 copyright 1987
SILAS CLAPP HOUSE (1804)
A two-and one-half story Federal farmhouse with a large brick center chimney; a central pediment entry with a semicircular fanlight, and fluted pilasters; a five-bay façade; and later (1900) ell at the right rear. There are several outbuildings, including a corncrib, on the large lot. Originally the land was part of the Cowesett Farms Plat land out in 1684. The Clapp family acquired a parcel of land, upon which Silas Clapp built a house in 1804. His descendants lived in the house until 1883. Since then there has been a succession of owners who have been sympathetic to the preservation of the old farmhouse, which is entered on the National Register.
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