Hearthside
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Hearthside is a historic house in Lincoln, Rhode Island
at 677 Great Road (Rt. 123), at the intersection of Breakneck Hill Road.
Stephen Hopkins Smith built this federal-style house in 1810 of fieldstone
and it contains 10 fireplaces or hearths. Smith allegedly built the house with winnings from the Louisiana state lottery to unsuccessfully woo a woman from Providence. Hearthside served as a private residence until 1996 until the town of Lincoln purchased the property and the "Friends of Hearthside", a nonprofit organization, became overseers of the property.
It is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lincoln, Rhode Island
Lincoln is a town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 21,105 at the 2010 census. Lincoln is located in northeastern Rhode Island, north of Providence....
at 677 Great Road (Rt. 123), at the intersection of Breakneck Hill Road.
Stephen Hopkins Smith built this federal-style house in 1810 of fieldstone
Fieldstone
Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...
and it contains 10 fireplaces or hearths. Smith allegedly built the house with winnings from the Louisiana state lottery to unsuccessfully woo a woman from Providence. Hearthside served as a private residence until 1996 until the town of Lincoln purchased the property and the "Friends of Hearthside", a nonprofit organization, became overseers of the property.
It is on the National Register of Historic Places.