While Warren, Rhode Island is best-known for its 18th and early 19th century houses, there are some great Victorian-era homes to be discovered. This is the Smith-Waterman House on Broad Street, which was apparently originally built around 1820 on a different site and relocated here by around 1860 by Nathaniel Phillips Smith. After Smith’s death in 1872, the property was owned by John Waterman, the Treasurer and General Manager of the Warren Manufacturing Company in town. Mr. Waterman undertook a massive renovation to the house, more than doubling its size and adding Italianate style trim details, the porches, and the 3 1/2-story tower off the rear.
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