Lieutenant John Adams Homestead - Wellscroft

  • Also Known As: Wellscroft Farm

  • Address: Sunset Hill Rd
  • Vicinity: Near SW corner of Silver Lake, W side of Sunset Hill Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

The house at Wellscroft Farm is of considerable architectural significance to Harrisville as one of the town's two best preserved cape cottages (comparable in integrity yet earlier than the Eaton-Richardson House) It is especially notable for its lack of dormer additions and fenestration alterations. Further, the farm's arrangement of separate outbuildings around a central yard furnishes a good example of a locally well accepted alternative to additive architecture as at the Josiah Knight Farm for example. Wellscroft Farm makes an important, representative contribution to every period of Harrisville's cyclical historical development. An early hill farm, it was built as the home of Lt John Adams, a prominent local citizen who held numerous important offices in the town of Nelson and served in the Revolution. Farmed for the remainder of the 19th century, this property later became the site of a large early 20th century summer house which is said to have been visited by Calvin Coolidge in the 1920s. - NRHP, 30 September 1986


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1773/00/00 Lt John Adams of Harrisville Home Built for Lt John Adams
1820/00/00 Moses Eaton Artist Second floor bedroom in the Lt John Adams Home contains New England Wall Stenciling, attributed to Moses Eaton

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Particulars for Lieutenant John Adams Homestead - Wellscroft:
Area of Significance Agriculture
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Other Description Cape Cottage
Criteria Historic Event
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 86003250
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: unknown
Architectural Style: Other
Attribute: Cape Cottage
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Architecture, Agriculture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Period of Significance: 1750-1799
Significant Year: c 1773
Historic Function: Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Single dwelling
Current Function: Domestic
Current Sub-Function: Single dwelling

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