Arnold House

The Arnold House is a rare surviving example of a stone-ender, a once-common building type featuring a massive chimney end wall. Built by Eleazer Arnold in 1693, the house features stone work that reflects the origins and skills of the settlers who emigrated from the western part of England. The house is a National Historic Landmark. Arnold, a landowner with a wife and ten children, secured a license for a “Public House.” Tavern customers were probably served in the great room or hall of the house. The structure has sustained many alterations over the centuries. Tour this historic home and see evidence of seventeenth-century construction methods, eighteenth-century additions, nineteenth-century graffiti, and the twentieth-century approach to preservation that restored the house to its present appearance.