This rare example of primitive 17th-century architecture is located at 125 Howland Road in East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

[2] Clement Weaver was a native of Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island, and built the house in 1679 after fighting in King Philip's War.

The house was included in the Historic American Buildings Survey, the first national preservation program, begun in 1933 to document America's architectural heritage.

Several years later, Brown University professor Norman Isham began a comprehensive restoration of the house.

Clement Weaver III was one of fifty veterans of the King Philip's War of 1675–1677 given large parcels of land in what was then a barren outpost now known as East Greenwich."

Clement Weaver and his young wife Rachel Andrews moved in the winter of 1679 to his 107.25 acres (43.40 hectares) of land "by the sea," where he built the house only two years after the official founding of the town of East Greenwich.

Up until the mid-19th century, several generations of Weavers had run the old White Horse Tavern (no longer standing) on Division Street in East Greenwich.

This lean-to was brought up to the height of the original house in 1681 to create two garrets above with a center chimney and entry.

Another lean-to was built along the back (western side) of the house to create the traditional salt-box shape remaining today.

The room retains the huge fireplace surrounded by many of the original hand-planed, feather-edged, vertical pine boards, along with batten doors with wooden latches and strap hinges.

This author's own observation, far less than scientific, would indicate that based on the size of the trees used in construction as well as when they were installed, would make much of the wood in the house close to a millennium old.

[2][4][page needed] The sheathed entry hall between the keeping room and the older kitchen contains a rare "split" staircase.

[2][4][page needed] The southern wall of the main house retains several original clapboards preserved when the 1712 kitchen ell was added on.

These original hand-riven clapboards appear to be made of oak and have been feathered and lapped while being fastened to the vertical sheathing with large, hand-wrought nails.

[2][4][page needed] An addition was built off the back of the kitchen which sits perpendicular to the main house.

The book includes information from Jane Fiske's edition of Rhode Island Court Records, and a photograph of the "museum room" fireplace as a comparison to the home Cornell was murdered in.