Category:Stone House Inn

English: The Stone House Inn, also known as the David Sisson House, located at 122 Sakonnet Point Road in Little Compton, Rhode Island, is a large four-story fieldstone structure – built in 1854 as a residence for David Sisson, a Providence-based industrialist – and its associated c.1886 barn. The structures sit on 2 acres (0.81 ha) of land overlooking Round Pond to the south, with a view of the Sakonnet River and Sakonnet Harbor to the west. When the house was completed, it was the largest single-family dwelling in that region and the only one built of stone.

In 1902 the property was auctioned off, and was subsequently used as a boarding house and a country inn. A tavern called The Tap Room, designed Richard Kunnicutt, was built in the cellar in 1933, after the end of Prohibition. The Hurricane of 1938 flooded the building and destroyed the cupola, and the Stone House remained closed for several decades.

In 1962, new owners renovated the building and opened it as the members-only Stone House Club. At around this time the barn was made over into an an assembly space, with bar and catering kitchen. The property was sold in 1972 and again in 1975 to owners who operated it as an inn for over 30 years, after which it was bought by Stone House LLC, which reconstructed the porches and cupola.

(Source: NRHP nomination form)