Brown Farm House   -   circa 1750 

     The Brown Farm House is a two story, four bay structure with a central chimney.  The house originally stood in Middletown, R.I. just off the West Main Road.  Little history of this house has been uncovered.  

     The building came to NRF with considerable simple interior trim, much of which was saved and reinstalled or, where necessary, used as a pattern for the making of reproduction moldings and materials.  The basic floor plan has a room with a fireplace each side of the front door and a long keeping room at the back.  At each end of the keeping room is a small corner room.  The second floor plan is much the same as that on the first.

      The Newport Restoration Foundation purchased the Brown Farm House from St. Lucy's Church in 1978.  The house was disassembled, moved to Green Street, and restored by NRF in 1979-80.