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Foster Center- Historic District is a small cluster ofhouses, public buildings, and other structures cohesively re-

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trict includes most of the hamlet of t’Foster Centre," asocialand commercial focus for the surrounding area from the mid- - -

eighteenth century onward and the seat of Foster’s town government from its incorporation in 1781. - -

The townbf Poster grew up on land purchased from theNarragansett Indians in 1662 by William Vaughan of Newport,Zachariah,Ithodes of Pawtuxet, and Robert Westcott of Warwick, -

in the- name of the- Westconnaug Company. Other influential -

Newport men soon joined the Company.‘a

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- owned by the Providence Proprietors. Inevitably, as purchas--ers began to survey and claim these western lands after the

conclusion of King Philip’s War in 1677, land-right disputes - -

arose between the two companies. Following the satisfactory zresolution of these disputes in 1708, three successive-draw- -

* ings for 150-acre lots were held to apportion the 32,000 acres- of Westconnaug. - - -

The growth of roads in Foster is indicative of early- -c- - settlement concentrations. Plainfield Pike, four miles to the - fl

south of the Historic District, was in use asearly as 1709 .. - -

and was established as a legal highway by act. of the General -

Assembly in 1711. - In 1720 a road was laid- out through West-connaug running from the land of the Providence Proprietors- -

south and west to Killingly, Connecticut. -It was beside this Z

Killingly Road that the first town pound in Foster at that - ‘a-

time a part of Scituate was erected in 1732. This stone- -

- - walled pound, forty-eight feet square with a heavy lintel hewn -

of Poster granite and a brook- "big enough to fish mIt running-, through its southwest corner, is in surprisingly good conditio:

today. It marks the southwestern bound of the Foster Center - - -

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About 650 feet to the northeast a1onthe Killing1fJtoad - -

stands the Hammond House, built by Stephen Colegrove in 1756 - -

on land he had purchased one year earlier. Colegrove’s housewas very likely’ the first built ‘in Foster Center and is known -

‘oy-tie name of its fourth owner, tavern-keeper Thomas Hammond, - -

who bought house, barn, and one-hundred-acre farm in 1767.Today the Hammond House stands out more for its historic asso,

- -- ciations than for its architecture. It was originally a gen-

- - erously-proportioned gable-roofed house with five-bay facade,center chimney-, and five-room floor plan. Changes in the - - ‘ - - -

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The Poster Center Historic-District-is àignificant fqrits long history as a focus of communitylife inwestern IRhode Island. The local convenience of the Center was firstindicated in 1732 when Scituate erected its town pound bedidc.the Killingly Road. Thomas Hammond operated his tavern asearly as 1770 and at least one other tavern had opened‘by -

1800. Welcome Rood’s Tavern also served as the Center’s i-:.?first general -store from the early 1800’s until the end o1the century. Reuben Hammond ran a thriving blacksmith busi- -

ness in the Center from 1825 onward as did Job Randall nearlya century later. - - - -

The Center has always beenthe seat of Poster’s government. The first town meeting, November 19, 1781, was heldin Thomas Hammond’s tavern, as were many of the early meet-

- ings. After 1801 Town Meetings were held’ in-the Baptist j - -Meeting House; theyarestjll held,there today. Until 19Q4--the Town Clerk’s’ Office was located in the-home of each sib-sequent Town Clerk. The Welcome Rood Tavern may have houdedthis office twice: probably from 1796-to 1803 when NehemidhAngell was Town Clerk, and definitely in the l87O?s when -,

George Phillips held the’ office-. -

-The Town House is a visible reminder-of the Center’s -

dual importance as a civic and religious center. Its shared -

occupancy’ for almost all of the 19th century embodies a continuing spirit of cooperation between civil and xeligiousinterests in twn. For example, the church’s first Elder,John Hammond, was also appointed the Town of’ Foster’s firstpound keeper. -

Architecturally the Foster Center Historic District i -important not for any unusual flourishes or refinements, butrather,--for its continued and clear development of a localstyle over a period of approximately 150 years. This styleis characterized by good proportions, simplicity of line, -

and careful craftsmanship worked in the local -materials ofPoster-cut wood and stone. - -. -

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Killingly Road, and Foster-Center Road. This is a very plainclapboarded two-and-a-half-story house with a one-story ellto- the west formerly- a grain shed and a pair of ells set at,right angles to each other to the east. This pair of ells arethe earliest- sections of the -house, probably dating from theclosing decades of the eighteenth century. They may have beenbuilt by Nehemiah Angell, an early tavern keeper in town whoserved as Town Clerk from-- 1796 to 1803. Rood purchased thehouse from Angell in the early- 1800t5 and thereafter builtthe main two-and--a-half story section of the-house to serveas a tavern and general store. - - -

Incorporated in this section is a fascinating second-story chamber designed specifically for Hamilton Lodge #15 ofFreemasons, who occupied it in 1825. - The room had a barrel- -

vaulted ceiling whose plaster arch and exposed framing arestill visible in the attic above a--later flat ceiling. Thewalls above chair-rail level are decorated with stencilledpatterns typical of the early and middle 1800’s: willow treesalternating with compass-point motifs, a central heart withleaves growing from it, and a cornice of stylized daisies.Similar stencilling was found in a downstairs room but had -

deteriorated beyond hope -of restoration. - -- - -

Other houses in the Foster Center Historic District noteworthy as much for their historical associations as for theirarchitecture are the Ely Aylsworth House and the Dr. MowryArnold House. Aylsworth, another early tavern keeper and- anactive real estate broker, purchased his five-bay centralchimney colonial house in 1824. It served as post office in1851 and currently houses the Poster Police Headquarters andthe Town Council Chamber. Twentieth-century changes have altered the house extensively. The Mowry Arnold House, a much-enlarged early-l9th-century "cape," was purchasedl-in 1830 byDr. Nowry Arnold, practitionerof medicine in Foster for -

sixty years, as well as school commissioner for forty-six -

years and town treasurer for twenty-three years. The Arnold -

farm straddles the path of old Foster Center Road, with houseon one side and contemporaneousbarn on the other. - - -

The Town Meeting House is the outstanding public buildin1in Foster Center. It was built in 1796 to house the Second -

Baptist Church in Foster, which had seceded from the First- Baptist Church in 1780 under the leadership of Elder John

- ‘Hammond brother to tavern-keeper Thomas. - In 1801 the congregation permitted the building to be used for the.Town -

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Meeting, a usage which led the churth to deed the building tothe Town in 1822, provided that the Town would maintain it andallow its continued use asa place of Christian worship. TheTown House, as it subsequently became known, is still used forthe,- annual financial town meeting. It is a large gable-roofedclapboarded building two stories high and five bays wide witha central flat-headed double door. It is set at the top of -

Howard Hill facing west. The interior architectural treatment,-with simple pews on three sides-and second-story gallery, istypical of-rural Rhode Island church building during this

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The Baptists eventually built another church in the Centerin 1882. This is a good example of a vernacular adaptation ofGreek Revival architectural forms and is at once surprising and

- -typical of rural Rhode Island in its very retardataire sty1istic--usage. - - - - -

- Tha Poster Center Public Library, originally a One-roomschoolhouse built sometime before 1847, also follows the sim-’pie lines and gable-end orientation of Greek Revival tradition.Closed in 1952 when a regionalschool system was instituted,the-building was restored and re-opened as the town li’brary-in1957. Two well-exebuted unobtrusive modern additins’-1964 -

and 1970 have permitted its continued growth. - -

The Town Clerk’s Office built in 1904, ‘the small woodshed Jail- built c. 1910, and the Baptist Church parsonage

- built c. 1882 and now a private-residence are other, small -

public buildings’stylistically derivative from the Greek’Revi-,,vai period. -- - - - - - - - - -

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The District’s unique significance, however, is greaterthan the sum of these diverse elements. It is the preservatioof a living sense of the past. Time has dealt kindly -with - IFoster Center. Some-alterations to individual buildings haveinevitably occurred. A few nondescript twentieth century -

houses have beenbuilt within the District. But the Center -

maintains its basic historic arid architectural integrity.

The area has not been closed in from its surrounding vis- -

tas of woods, hills, and fields. Those structures which havebeen built since Foster Centerts most populous days of the1820’s are very much a logical extension of earlier local ar-

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chitectural traditions and have beencarefully placed in relartion to pre-existen-t roads and structures. There are few dis1cordant notes in the District, little to call attention’ to thetremendous span of years and of history -that its twenty-oddstructures reflect. The 1904 Town Clerk’s Office blends equaly well With, the pre-1847’Schooi House, the 1796 Town House, anethe 1756 Hammond House. - - - - -

- Foster Center Historic ‘District’ preserves in itself a -

unified portrait of, and -to some extent the quality of lifein, a rural. Rhode Island town of 150 years ago. The hamlet ofFoster Center exists in relation-to the land muchas it alwayshas. it is an unspoiled--phenomenon-of increasing ‘scarcity ‘inour- age of encroaching metropolis. - -- - - - - --

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Henshall, Helen Bemis: Foster Typewritten manuscript in --

Poster Center Library, c. 1962. - - - --

The Hiriterlander, Bulletin of the Western Rhode Island Civic’Historical Society Rhode Island, various -issues 1957 to - -

the present. - - - - - - - -

Howard, Daniel: History- of the Town House Handwritten manuscript owned by Helen Henshali, 1826. - - - -

Ladies of the Foster Center Fixe Auxiliary: Poster, R.I. -

Foster, 1963. - - -

Matthews, Margery: Notes on Foster History personal-compilation in hex possession. -

- Old Home Day at Foster Centre, R. I., 1st- Observance Foster,September 15, 1904. - - --

- Smith, Howard Bucklin: The WestconnaugPurchase Manuscript- read before the Western Rhode Island Civic Historical So-

- - ciety,- 1947. - - - - -

Walker, Cyrus: The History of Sbituate, R.I. Handwrittenmanuscript in North Scituate Town Clerk’s Office, c. igoo.

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Davenport? Isaac with’ corrections and additions by Theodore-- Foster: Plan of the Town of Foster, by Conjecture from the

Best Information Poster, June 20, 1799. Hand-drawn mapin Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts, Vol, VII.

Foster, Town of: Plat 9 and Plat 20 Town Clerk’s Office,Foster Center. --

Matteson, George- E.: Foster, R. I. - Hope, Rhode Island, 1971.’Plan of the Town of Foster by Conjecture Foster, Rhode Island

October 2, 1181. Hand-drawn map in ‘IRjiode Island Historicalee uontanhiatIon Sheet - 5

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Federal Writer’s Project: Rhode Island, -A Guide to the Small -

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Town Pound, 1732

Thomas Hammond House, 1756

Foster Town Jail, c. 1910 moved

Town Clerk’s Office--"Benjamin EddyBuilding," 1904

Foster Center Baptist Chtzrch, 1882

Welcome Rood Tavern, c. 1780; mainsection c. 1820

Job Randall’s Blacksmith Shop, c. 1901

Baptist Parsonage,c. 1882

Foster Center Public Library--."HemlockSchool," before 1847

Ely Aylsworth House, c. 1780

Town House--"Baptist Meeting House,"1796

Hopkins House, c. 1800

Dr. Mowry Arnold House, c. 1800

Arnold Farm Barn, c. 1830

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