Gen. James Mitchell Varnum House

Eighteenth-century house in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, built for a Revolutionary War general and now operated as a museum.

57 Peirce Street, East Greenwich, RI · East Greenwich, RI

About Gen. James Mitchell Varnum House

This wood-frame house in East Greenwich was built in 1773 for James Mitchell Varnum, who later became a general in the Continental Army. The building rises two and a half stories and has a front portico supported by Ionic columns. A nineteenth-century addition extends from the back. Later residents included George A. Brayton, a former chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. The Varnum Continentals bought the house in 1939, and it has since been used as a museum.

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