| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1773/06/16 | Gen James Mitchell Varnum | Home | James M Varnum buys a lot on Peirce Street from John Peirce. Architect and builder John Reynolds had already begun erecting a refined but not elaborate dwelling for Varnum. The residence will not be completed until 1778. | |||
| 1778/00/00 | Marquis de Lafayette | Guest | General Lafayette makes a house call on James Varnum. Lafayette gives the Varnums a miniature punch bowl as a housewarming present. The bowl is preserved in the 'Lafayette Bedroom'. | |||
| 1778/02/00 | Gen James Mitchell Varnum | Life | James Varnum sells his elegant mansion to the builder, John Reynolds. | |||
| 1787/10/04 | Gen James Mitchell Varnum | Home | James M Varnum is appointed District Judge in the Northwest Territory. He will leave his wife, Martha Child Varnum, behind and moves to Marietta, Ohio, to take up the position of stays at Peirce Street. | |||
| 1802/00/00 | Ethan Clarke | Home | Ethan Clarke buys the old Varnum House. | |||
| 1850/00/00 | George Arnold Brayton | Home | 1847 to 1854: Ethan's granddaughter, Cecilia Clarke and her husband George Brayton, acquire shares in the property from her siblings, Ethan R Clarke, Samuel W Clarke, Anna Brayton and Emily Padgett. Hand painted wallpaper on the 1st floor dates from 1850. | |||
| 1885/00/00 | Cecilia and George Brayton leave their residence to their daughters, Clarissa, wife of Dr William Shaw Bowen, and Anna, wife of Charles Redeker. | |||||
| 1907/00/00 | Stanford White | Architect | Stanford White copies the dining room fireplace with a broken-pediment overmantel in James Mitchell Varnum House at East Greenwich for a building at the Jamestown Exposition. | Jamestown Exposition | ||
| 1921/00/00 | Walter Foster Angell | Home | Louise Brayton Bowen, the great-great-granddaughter of Ethan Clarke sells the residence to Walter F Angell of Providence. | |||
| 1939/00/00 | Walter Foster Angell | Life | The Varnum Continentals purchase the James Mitchell Varnum House in East Greenwich from Walter F Angell of Providence, sympathetically restore the residence and open it as a museum. |
| Particulars for Gen James Mitchell Varnum House: | |
|---|---|
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Museum Type | Historical Museum |
| Level of Significance | National |
| Criteria | Person |
| Owner | Private |
| Historic Use | Single dwelling |
| Decorative Arts | Wallpaper, covering |
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