Built around 1713 on Old River Road in Lincoln, Rhode Island, the Whipple-Cullen House is a two-and-a-half story wood-frame farmhouse, five bays wide, with a large central chimney and a gable roof — one of the town's least-altered eighteenth-century homes.

A rear addition and a nineteenth-century side porch were added over the generations, and the barn just north of the house, dating to the late 1800s, is a rare survivor of Lincoln's agrarian past. A former farm shed to the south now serves as a garage.

The property sits directly across from the Lincoln town offices, and has been part of the fabric of the town for nearly three centuries.

  • Builtc. 1713
  • LocationOld River Road, Lincoln, RI
  • RegisterNational Register of Historic Places, 1991
  • Main house2½ stories, five bays, central chimney
  • BarnLate 19th century, north of the house
  • DistinctionOne of Lincoln's least-altered 18th-century houses
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