The Colonel Micah Whitmarsh House is an historic house in

East Greenwich, Rhode Island East Greenwich is a town and the county seat of Kent County, Rhode Island. The population was 14,312 at the 2020 census. East Greenwich is the wealthiest municipality within the state of Rhode Island. It is part of the Providence metropolitan st ...

. The -story

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style brick house was built c. 1767-1771 by John Reynolds, and acquired in 1773 by Micah Whitmarsh, a founding member of the local Kentish Guards militia, which are located nearby in the

Armory of the Kentish Guards The Armory of the Kentish Guards is a historic Armory (military), armory at Armory and Peirce Streets in East Greenwich, Rhode Island and is currently home to the Kentish Guards, a historic Rhode Island Independent Military Organizations, Rhode Is ...

. It is distinctive as the only brick house on Main Street. It has been owned since 1966 by the East Greenwich Historical Society. The house was listed on the

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in 1971.

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Houses completed in 1767 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island Houses in Kent County, Rhode Island Buildings and structures in East Greenwich, Rhode Island 1767 establishments in Rhode Island National Register of Historic Places in Kent County, Rhode Island Historic district contributing properties in Rhode Island Greek Revival houses in Rhode Island {{KentCountyRI-NRHP-stub

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