![]() ![]() ![]() in Providence, at the corner of Modena Avenue, just past LaSalle Academy. This is, as some commenters knew, the Zachariah Allen House at 1083 Smith St. Hazard a guess in comments below, then come back Sunday for a long-ago Rhode Islander magazine story about the house and the book it inspired. Who were all these people - the East Sider, the sea captain, the novelist? Where's the house?Īs always, you may enlarge the photo, shot in 1961, by clicking on it. Built in 1790 as a country house and farm for a retired East Sider, the house later belonged to a whaling captain who inspired a 20th-century historical novel by a Rhode Islander who's almost a household name, if only for the building that bears her name. Our red house is a landmark, elegant and classical, on a busy Providence thoroughfare. ![]()
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