In this two-and-one-half-story gabled house, the side-lighted door with a blind fan, suggesting the early-nineteenth-century Federal style, first catches the eye. But the central chimney and the small six-over-six sash boxed out beyond the plane of the clapboarding, as well as the window placement, which just misses symmetry, all indicate its mid-eighteenth-century origin with another member of the pioneering Angell family. Like the preceding house, this also served briefly as a tavern for travelers along the turnpike between Providence and Putnam, Connecticut. It was early (c. 1815) converted into two-family housing with apartments downstairs and up for workers at a forerunner of the present Greystone Mill, immediately behind and across the river in North Providence (
NP11). The downstairs, restored for use as a museum and meeting place, displays fireplaces and woodwork in plastered rooms typical of country work in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Johnston Historical Society (Elijah Angell House)
1765, c. 1815. 101 Putnam Pk. (open to the public)