William Harrington Farm (1858; barn 1917, ff271)

The Harrington Farm includes a 1½-story, gable-roofed house* with a1½-storyset-back ell fronted by an open Victorian porch; a large, gambrel roofed, shingled barn just across Harrington Road built by Finnish carpenters in 1917 on the site of an earlier barn; and a 2½-story shed, originally used for butchering and processing hogs and storing dairy products, now used as a rental residence. The house was built by William Harrington, a farmer who raised, among other crops, potatoes and apples for cash sale in Providence, and who fought in the Civil War.  In the twentieth century Herman Harrington had a dairy operation here. Members of the Harrington family were among the earliest settlers in southwestern Foster and the barn occupies the site of Revolutionary War era Captain Simeon Harrington’s house.