Alfred Drowne Road Historic District
The Alfred Drowne Road Historic District of Barrington, Rhode Island, encompasses a suburban area developed between about 1860 and 1910, a period of significant suburban growth in Barrington spurred by the connection of the town by rail to Providence in 1855.
The Alfred Drowne Road Historic District of Barrington, Rhode Island, encompasses a suburban area developed between about 1860 and 1910, a period of significant suburban growth in Barrington spurred by the connection of the town by rail to Providence in 1855. This 27-acre (11 ha) residential area was before that time farmland owned by Alfred Drown, whose c. 1830 farmhouse still stands at 13 Alfred Drowne Road. The house of his son Benjamin, built c. 1856, is at number 27. The district includes properties along Alfred Drowne Road, as well as a few properties on Washington Street and Annawamscutt Road which are immediately adjacent.
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Worth seeing in and around Alfred Drowne Road Historic District
8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Conimicut Light
Conimicut Light, built in 1883, is a historic sparkplug lighthouse in Warwick, Rhode Island. The lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
2.8 km · lighthouse in Rhode Island, United States · Wikipedia - 02Barrington Beach
Barrington Beach is a beach located in Barrington, Rhode Island, United States. It has 4 acres of beachfront overlooking Narragansett Bay.
3.3 km · beach in Rhode Island, United States · Wikipedia - 03Nayatt Point Light
Nayatt Point Light is a historic lighthouse in Barrington, Rhode Island. The current light was built of brick in 1856 and contains an 1828 keeper's house.
1.9 km · lighthouse in Rhode Island, United States · Wikipedia - 04Sabin Point Light
The Sabin Point Light was a lighthouse located in the Providence River. It was removed as part of a channel-widening project in 1968.
3.3 km · lighthouse in Rhode Island, United States · Wikipedia - 05Barrington College
Barrington College was a four-year Christian liberal arts college located in Barrington, Rhode Island, United States. It is no longer in operation.
2.2 km · American Christian college · Wikipedia - 06Bullock's Point Light
The Bullock's Point Light was a lighthouse in the Providence River. It was irreparably damaged by the hurricane of 1938 and was replaced the following year by an automated light on a steel tower.
1.7 km · lighthouse in Rhode Island, United States · Wikipedia - 07Crescent Park
Crescent Park was an amusement park in Riverside, East Providence, Rhode Island that was operational from 1886 to 1979. Called the "Coney Island of the East," the nearly 50 acre park overlooked the Narragansett Bay on the west and Bullock Cove on the southeast.
1.9 km · defunct amusement park · Wikipedia - 08St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 5 Chapel Road in Barrington, Rhode Island.
100 m · church building in Rhode Island, United States of America · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alfred Drowne Road Historic District
- Airports
- Rhode Island T. F. Green (PVD), 7 km · Boston Logan (BOS), 74 km · Bradley (BDL), 113 km
- Boston → Alfred Drowne Road Historic DistrictTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Hartford → Alfred Drowne Road Historic DistrictTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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