Description
Historic house. The Captain John Mawdsley House, located at 228 Spring Street, is one of the oldest houses in Newport, Rhode Island. The earliest rear part of the house was built on Spring Street before 1680, probably by Jireh Bull. Bull married Godsgift Arnold, daughter of Gov. Benedict Arnold. Captain John Mawdsley, a privateer, lived in the house in the eighteenth century and constructed the large front addition to the house.
