Westcott, Rhode Island

Westcott is a village in the town of West Warwick in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States.

[3] Westcott was home to much of the housing for the workers in the nearby Riverpoint village, such as the twenty duplexes built on Providence Street by the Greene Company.

[3] The New London Turnpike that passed through Westcott was built by the Providence and Pawcatuck Turnpike Company in 1821 to connect the out-of-the-way mills in western Warwick (now West Warwick) to the ports and markets on the Eastern Seaboard like Providence.

[6] In 1983 the façade was altered, a new addition was added, and the whole building was converted into Westcott Terrace, an elderly housing project.

[3] Built by Anthony Rice, a Revolutionary War soldier, this center-chimney Cape-style house had five rooms on the first floor and two on the second.