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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


Rhode Island was first settled in 1636 by Roger Williams and other colonists from England. Many of the colonists came from western England and brought the prevalent British architectural ideas with them to New England, but adapted these to the environment of Rhode Island. The colonists built “stone enders” which made use of the material that was in abundance in the area: timber and stone. Rhode Island also had an abundance of limestone (in contrast to the other New England states), and this allowed Rhode Islanders to make mortar to build massive end chimneys on their houses. Much of the lime was quarried at Limerock in Lincoln, Rhode Island.
Only a few stone enders remain in the 21st century. Architectural restoration specialist Norman Isham restored several original stone enders in the early 20th century (see Clement Weaver House and Clemence-Irons House). Scituate sculptor Armand LaMontagne hand-built a large 17th-century style stone-ender off of Route 6 in Scituate, Rhode Island in the 1970s.




Description


Stone ender houses were usually timber-framed, one and one-half or two stories in height, with one room on each floor. One end of the house contained a massive stone chimney which usually filled the entire end wall, thus giving the dwelling the name of “stone ender.” Robert O. Jones noted that the windows were very small “casements filled with oiled paper” and that “the stairs to the upper chambers were steep, ladder-like structures usually squeezed in between the chimney and the front entrance.” He points out that a few houses may have had leaded glass windows, but that was very rare. See Clement Weaver House, East Greenwich, Rhode Island for an example containing the leaded glass windows and ladder-like stairs.




List of early extant Rhode Island stone-enders


Edward Searle House, Cranston, Rhode Island, 1670–1720
Clement Weaver House, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1679
Thomas Fenner House, Cranston, Rhode Island, 1677
Clemence-Irons House, Johnston, Rhode Island, 1691
Eleazer Arnold House, Lincoln, Rhode Island, 1693
John Bliss House, Newport, Rhode Island c. 1680
Valentine Whitman House, Lincoln, Rhode Island, 1694
Smith-Appleby House, Smithfield, Rhode Island, 1696 (chimney later modified)
Joseph Smith House, North Providence, 1705
Greene-Bowen House, Warwick, Rhode Island c. 1715
John Tripp House, Providence/Newport, Rhode Island, 1720




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See also


List of the oldest buildings in Rhode Island




References






Further reading


Isham, Norman A., and Alber Frederic Brown (1895). Early Rhode Island Houses: An Historical and Architectural Study. Providence: Preston & Rounds.
Nebiker, Walter (1976). The History of North Smithfield. Somersworth, NH: New England History Press.




External links


Clement Weaver House—1679
Warwick Site
Clemence Irons House (1691)
Arnold House (1693)

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