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Samuel Guild House, 53 Transit St Providence, Providence County, RI
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. ... Read More Read Less
Samuel Guild House, 53 Transit St Providence, Providence County, RI
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. ... Read More Read Less
Posted Date
Sep 27, 2021
Source Name
Library of Congress
