Clement Weaver House
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Clement Weaver–Daniel Howland House
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House pictured in 2009 from Howland Road
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| Location | East Greenwich, Rhode Island |
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| Coordinates | 41°39′32″N 71°28′37″W / 41.65889°N 71.47694°WCoordinates: 41°39′32″N 71°28′37″W / 41.65889°N 71.47694°W |
| Built | 1679 |
| Architect | None |
| Architectural style | Traditional saltbox design |
| Restored | 1930s; 1996 |
| Restored by | Norman Isham; Larry Schneider |
| NRHP reference # | 95001266 |
| Added to NRHP | November 7, 1995 |
The Clement Weaver–Daniel Howland House is a historic stone-ender timber frame house built in 1679. This rare example of primitive 17th-century architecture is located at 125 Howland Road in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. It is the oldest documented dwelling house in Kent County and the second oldest home in Rhode Island.
Clement Weaver, a native of Newport, Rhode Island, built the house in 1679, after fighting in King Philip's War. His descendants sold the house to Daniel Howland in 1748. Daniel Howland was a grandchild of Henry Howland, who arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1624. Henry was the younger brother of John Howland, one of the original Mayflower Pilgrims of 1620.
The house was included in the Historic American Buildings Survey, the nation's first federal preservation program, begun in 1933 to document America's architectural heritage. Several years later, Norman Isham, a prominent architect and professor at Brown University, began a comprehensive restoration of the house.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
Clement III was a grandson of Clement Weaver who moved from Glastonbury, England, to Newport, Rhode Island. 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." This made Clement one of the town’s original grantees. 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. His home remains a rare and unique architectural showplace.
Clement Weaver's family of eight children grew up in this little farmhouse. His son, Joseph, succeeded him with his own family of four. 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 tavern may have been related to the White Horse Tavern of the same time period in Newport, Rhode Island. Three descendants of the original Clement Weaver served during World War I.
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