The Valentine Whitman House is an historic stone ender

Stone ender

The Stone-ender is a unique style of Rhode Island architecture that developed in the 17th century where one wall in a house is made up of a large stone chimney.-History:...

 house on Great Road in Lincoln, Rhode Island

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....

. The house is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the state.

The large farmhouse was built around 1694. The house features a large stone chimney at one end. In 1730 the first town meeting of Smithfield (which then included modern day Lincoln) was held in the house.