Joseph Stevens House

with Betsy Ross flag.

The Betsy Ross flag is a reconstructed early design for the flag of the United States, which is conformant to the Flag Act of 1777 and has red stripes outermost and stars arranged in a circle. These details elaborate on the 1777 act, passed early in the American Revolutionary War, which specified 13 alternating red and white horizontal stripes and 13 white stars in a blue canton. It was once widely believed that, shortly after the 1777 act, upholsterer and flag maker Betsy Ross produced a flag of this design.

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The John Stevens House is a five-bay wide, two and one half story story, clapboard and wood shingle building with a side-gabled roof. It is set on a stone foundation bordering the sidewalk along the corner of Thames and Sanford Streets and faces west near the downtown of Newport, Rhode Island. The John Stevens House is found in a densely-built neighborhood south of Island Cemetery and north of Washington Square. An impression of a quaint New England town of the past is given with its mix of Colonial Architecture and green space.