Built c. 1850, it was a two-story wood-frame structure with an impressive Greek Temple front, with full-height fluted Ionic columns supporting a full triangular pediment.

The roof was topped by an octagonal cupola with belvedere, with two narrow chimneys piercing the ridge line.

The purchaser is believed to be Benjamin Barker, a lumber merchant operating in nearby Fall River, Massachusetts.

[3] The property it stood on, at the northwest corner of the junction of Main Road and Rhode Island Route 24, was associated with The Coachman, a restaurant, and is now the site of an assisted living facility.

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