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
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