Nathaniel Greene Homestead
50 Taft St, Coventry, RI 02816, USA
Rhode Island, USA
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EST. 1770
EST. 1770
1770
Greene, Nathaniel
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HISTORIC PRESERVATION at Nathaniel Greene Homestead.
Nathanael Greene’s original 1770 farmhouse survives as a nonprofit historic house museum in Coventry. The restored and furnished dwelling, period rooms, collections, gardens, outbuildings, and surrounding grounds preserve the general’s family home and interpret colonial domestic life through tours and programs.
About Nathaniel Greene Homestead
The house was built by Nathanael Greene in 1770, part of a property encompassing 2,000 acres (810 ha), and served as his family's home through the Revolutionary War. The house is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure with a gable roof, two interior chimneys, and clapboarded exterior. It is five bays wide and two deep, with a center entry framed by pilasters and topped by a transom window, triangular pediment, and carved fanlight motif. The house follows a typical late-Georgian center-hall plan, with four rooms on each level, two on either side of the central hall.
HISTORY HAPPENED HERE at Nathaniel Greene Homestead
In 1783 Greene moved the family to Newport, before eventually relocating to Georgia, where he died in 1786. This house he sold to his brother Jacob. It remained in Greene family hands until 1899, although it became run-down and was used as a tenement house in the later years.
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