Dexter House (Houston, Texas)
Dexter House may refer to: *David Dexter House, Claremont, New Hampshire *Edward Dexter House, Providence, Rhode Island *Jeremiah Dexter House, Providence, Rhode Island * Dexter House (Houston, Texas), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Harris County, Texas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in Harris County, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Harris County, Texas, Harris Co ...

David Dexter House
The David Dexter House is a historic house on Lincoln Heights in northern Claremont, New Hampshire. Built about 1790, it is a prominent local example of Federal period architecture, and was home to David Dexter, whose early mills were the first in the city's industrial history. The house was moved to its present location in 1975 to avoid demolition, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It now houses apartments. Description and history The David Dexter House is located on a rise now known as Lincoln Heights, north of the Broad Street crossing of the Sugar River. It is a -story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Although not at its original location, it is set on a modern foundation that includes granite blocks from its original foundation. It is five bays wide and four deep, with sash windows arranged symmetrically around the entrance on the front facade. The ground-floor windows have projecting cornices, and ...
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Edward Dexter House
The Edward Dexter House is a historic house in the College Hill neighborhood of Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story wood-frame structure, built in 1795–1797, with a hip roof topped by a square monitor. Its main facade is five bays wide, with the center bay flanked by two-story pilasters and topped by a small gable pediment. The well-preserved interior provided a template for an early-20th-century museum space designed by the Rhode Island School of Design to house a furniture collection donated by the house's then-owner, Charles Pendleton. The house is one of the few 18th-century houses in the city's College Hill neighborhood. It was originally located at the corner of George and Prospect Streets; in 1860 it was sawed in half and moved in sections to its present location. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Gallery File:Edward Dexter House, Waterman Street.jpg, The house, circa 1915 File:Edward Dexter House, North Side of Water ...
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Jeremiah Dexter House
The Jeremiah Dexter House is a historic colonial house in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story gambrel-roofed wood-frame structure, built in 1754 for printer Jeremiah Dexter on farm land that was originally granted to his ancestor Gregory Dexter, a friend and printer for Roger Williams Roger Williams (21 September 1603between 27 January and 15 March 1683) was an English-born New England Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation .... It is five bays wide, with a large central chimney typical of the period, and is one of the few surviving colonial-era farmhouses in the city. The Dexter farm is further notable as the site where French Army troops were stationed upon their return from Virginia in 1782, during the American Revolutionary War. The paved parking lot which surrounds the house on two sides is believed to contain archaeological remains of the French camp. The ...
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Dexter House (Houston, Texas)
Dexter House may refer to: *David Dexter House, Claremont, New Hampshire *Edward Dexter House, Providence, Rhode Island *Jeremiah Dexter House, Providence, Rhode Island * Dexter House (Houston, Texas), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Harris County, Texas __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in Harris County, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Harris County, Texas, Harris Co ...