Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1790/00/00 | A windmill is erected c 1790, or earlier, to the east of the cottage. The structure will operate as a grist-mill until 1843. | |||||
1800/00/00 | Martin Nichols, a mariner, builds a cottage about 1800 or earlier on a corner lot at Division and West Streets. | |||||
1805/00/00 | William Greene, a decedent of early settlers of the Warwick-East Greenwich area, buys Nichols cottage. | |||||
1808/00/00 | Franklin Greene | Home | William Greene sells his house to a relative, Franklin Greene, nephew of the General Nathanael Greene. | |||
1811/00/00 | Ethan Clarke | Home | Franklin Greene sells his residence to Ethan Clarke, first president of the Rhode Island Central Bank. | |||
1835/00/00 | Henry Elbridge buys the cottage, lives here and operates the grist-mill on the opposite street-corner until milling became unprofitable in 1843. | |||||
1866/00/00 | George Washington Greene | Home | Henry W Longfellow deeds the cottage to George Washington Greene's wife, Katherine Van B Porter Greene. | |||
1866/00/00 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Benefactor | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow buys a cottage as a gift and residence for his friend, Professor George Washington Greene. | |||
1870/00/00 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Benefactor | Henry W Longfellow buys the windmill and has it moved and then attached at the south-west corner of the house. The house is enlarged with a south-eastern kitchen ell. | |||
1880/04/18 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Poet | Longfellow writes to Greene from Cambridge, "I have written several poems of late, one of which, 'The Windmill', I send you." Its first stanza runs: Behold a giant am I, Aloft here in my tower, With my granite jaws I devour, foundation fair |
Particulars for Windmill Cottage: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Area of Significance | Commerce |
Area of Significance | Education |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Area of Significance | Literature |
Level of Significance | National |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
Structure Type | Windmill |
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