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Summary
Significance: This is an example of a small, simple, frame house of the mid-nineteenth century, with an unusually steep roof, which has given it its name of "Lightning Splitter" house.
Daniel Pearce built a one-story gambrel roofed house around 1781, and that building was rebuilt into its present form by Samuel Guild in the mid 1840s.
Survey number: HABS RI-258
Building/structure dates: 1844 Initial Construction
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Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Riverside, 41.82025, -71.40195
Source
Library of Congress
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