Little Compton ยท Sakonnet Point
Stone House Inn
David Sisson's 1854 fieldstone house at Sakonnet Point, a country inn after a 1902 auction; some of the 16 rooms are in the c. 1886 barn.
- Built
- 1854Built 1854 as the home of Providence industrialist David Sisson; the barn dates to c.1886 (NRHP; inn).
- Style
- Italianate
- Type
- Inn
- Rooms
- 16
- Area
- Sakonnet Point
- Credentials
- Listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The story
David Sisson, a Providence iron and textile manufacturer, built the four-story fieldstone house in 1854; it was then the largest house in the area and the only one of stone. His son Henry Tillinghast Sisson, a Civil War officer, was Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island in 1875-77. After a 1902 auction it became a boarding house and country inn, and a Tap Room was built in the cellar in 1933 after Prohibition. The 1938 hurricane destroyed its cupola, and from 1962 it ran as the members-only Stone House Club before reopening as an inn.
Good to know
- Parking: on-site free
- No pets
- Address: 122 Sakonnet Point Road, Little Compton, RI 02837
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.