Martin House (Seekonk, Massachusetts)

	Martin House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Martin House in 2010
Location	940 County Street,; Seekonk, Massachusetts
Coordinates	41°48′50″N 71°17′54″W / 41.81389°N 71.29833°W
Built	1799
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	74000365
Added to NRHP	May 2, 1974

The Martin House is a historic house in Seekonk, Massachusetts, United States.

The house is a frame structure with clapboard exterior. It is two and a half stories, plus an 18-foot square monitor above. It has an entrance porch with two Doric columns. There are eight rooms distributed around a central hall plan.^[2] The house was built c. 1799–1801, and is stylistically similar to houses built at the time in Newport, Rhode Island.^[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.^[1]

Simeon Martin[edit]

Simeon Martin (October 20, 1754 – September 3, 1819) was born to an old family who had lived in Rehoboth for five generations, going back to 1665.^[4]

Martin was a captain in Christopher Lippitt's regiment in the American Revolutionary War.^[4] He fought at the Battle of Trenton with George Washington.^[4] After Newport was evacuated by the British in 1779, Martin lived in Newport.^[4] He represented Newport in the General Assembly, and was Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island for seven nonconsecutive one year terms, serving from 1808 to 1810 and 1811–1816. He also served as a Trustee of Brown University 1794–1819.

Martin is buried at Burial Place Hill in Rehoboth, not far from this home. His epitaph, at 405 words, is claimed to be the longest in the United States and possibly the world.^[5]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ Frank Chouteau Brown. "Historic American Buildings Survey" (PDF). Library of Congress. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 June 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
^ "MACRIS inventory record for Martin House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-25.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Tilton, George (1918). A History of Rehoboth Massachusetts. Boston. pp. 360–361.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ "Old Rehoboth". Old Rehoboth. Retrieved 2 June 2014. The longest epitaph in the United States, and probably in the world, is on the Table Stone of the Honorable Simeon Martin.