The Arad Wood House is an historic house in Cranston, Rhode Island. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1858 for N. Thornton, and is one Cranston's finest Italianate houses. Although it was built as a farmhouse, it was acquired in the 1890s by Arad Wood, one of Cranston's wealthiest businessmen, who operated a gentleman's farm of several hundred acres. The house was also later the first home of the Cranston chapter of the American Red Cross.[2]
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| Location | 407 Pontiac Avenue, Cranston, Rhode Island |
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| Coordinates | 41°46′30″N 71°26′18″W / 41.77500°N 71.43833°W |
| Built | 1858 |
| Architectural style | Italianate |
| NRHP reference No. | 88001125 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | August 3, 1988 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Arad Wood House" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-08-02.