Jencks Rd., Foster, Rhode Island. County/parish: Providence.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 16, 1972. NRIS 72000039.
1 contributing building.
The Captain George Dorrance House is an historic house in Foster, Rhode Island. It is located on the west side of the road, a short way south of its junctions with Plain Woods Road, not far from the Connecticut border. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gable roof and a large central chimney. The main block was built c. 1720, and a leanto was added c. 1750. It is one of the best-preserved early 18th-century houses in the state.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41375281