Little Compton Common Historic District

The United Congregational Church (built 1832)

The district features a variety of Greek Revival and Victorian buildings, including the United Congregational Church, whose tall steeple dominates the landscape; the First Methodist Meeting House; the Little Compton Town Hall and a former schoolhouse, now connected; Sakonnet Lodge, formerly a Methodist Church; the Little Compton Community Center, formerly Grange Hall; the Brownell Library; a restaurant; and C. R. Wilbur's General Merchandise store; among others.[2]

At the center of the district is the town common itself; one of only two remaining in Rhode Island. It contains a large colonial cemetery with many graves, including those of American Revolutionary War veterans and other notable individuals.[3] Nearby is Union Cemetery – also part of the historic district – which features a Civil War Memorial.

The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.[1]

• Benjamin Church, hero of King Philip's War, father of United States Army Rangers[3]
• Elizabeth Pabodie, the first European woman born in New England, the daughter of Mayflower Pilgrims[3]

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  Parsonage of the Congregational Church, originally the First Methodist Meeting House (built in 1824 and moved in 1839)
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  The Little Compton Town Hall (1880)
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  C. R. Wilbur's General Merchandise (built c. 1840)
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  The Brownell Library (built 1929), home of the Little Compton Public Library

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Newport County, Rhode Island

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Little Compton Commons Historic District.

• United Congregational Church in Little Compton
• Buxton, Wilson R. et al. The Two-hundredth anniversary of the organization of the United Congregational Church, Little Compton, Rhode Island, September 7, 1904 United Congregational Society, 1906