Brown Avenue Historic District

Historic district in Rhode Island, United States

United States historic place


Brown Avenue Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Dame Farm, part of Snake Den State Park
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Location	Johnston, Rhode Island
Area	563 acres (228 ha)
NRHP reference No.	73000066 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 24, 1973

The Brown Avenue Historic District is a rural historic district in Johnston, Rhode Island, USA. The district encompasses a rural and agricultural landscape centered on a 1-mile (1.6 km) stretch in the midsection of Brown Avenue, which runs between Hartford Avenue (United States Route 6) and Greenville Avenue (Rhode Island Route 5). There are five farmsteads, with the Dame Farmstead at its center, whose farmhouses date to the late 18th century. A number of these farms are no longer in production, and part of the district is in Snake Den State Park.^[2]

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "NRHP nomination for Brown Avenue Historic District" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved September 24, 2014.