Windmill Cottage

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Windmill Cottage
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Windmill Cottage (Rhode Island)
Windmill Cottage
Location: East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Coordinates: 41°39′49″N 71°27′23″W / 41.66361, -71.45639Coordinates: 41°39′49″N 71°27′23″W / 41.66361, -71.45639
Built/Founded: 1790
Architect: Unknown
Architectural style(s): No Style Listed
Added to NRHP: May 22, 1973
NRHP Reference#: 73000051

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Governing body: Private

Windmill Cottage is an historic house at 144 Division Street in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

The house was built around 1790. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow bought the cottage in 1866 for his friend G.W. Green and had a circa 1818 windmill moved to the site in 1870 and attached to the cottage.[2] The windmill allegedly inspired Longfellow's poem, "The Windmill."[3] The site added to the National Historic Register in 1973.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
  2. ^ Paul Pence, "Longfellow's Windmill Cottage," Rhode Island Roads.
  3. ^ Paul Pence, "Longfellow's Windmill Cottage," Rhode Island Roads.
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