It was a 2+1⁄2-story timber-frame structure, with a side-gable roof, built around 1710–20.

It was probably built by Charles Tillinghast, whose family was among the founders of Rhode Island.

[2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

[1] It was demolished shortly after to make way for an extension of America's Cup Highway to Memorial Boulevard.

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