Carpenter Homestead

Osamequin Farm, also called the Carpenter Homestead, is a 166-acre working farm straddling Seekonk and Rehoboth, Massachusetts. Its core is a shingled farmhouse begun about 1720, with a gable-on-hip roof, a massive central chimney and a slight second-story overhang. Nearby stand a barn, an 18th-century gambrel-roof corncrib and a small skating house, set among stone walls, wells, springs, a stone dam, meadows, woodlands and ponds. The house changed through the 19th century, then underwent a careful Colonial Revival restoration in 1939-1940 designed by Providence architect Edwin Emory Cull. The property matters for more than 200 years of ownership by the Carpenter family, whose members helped keep town records and shape the community, and for ties to artists William and Ellsworth Woodward. It was listed for its local significance in history and architecture, and it still keeps the farm landscape around its buildings.