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Mount Hope Farm (also known as Gov. William Bradford House) is an historic estate on Metacom Avenue in Bristol, Rhode Island, USA. The farm is located near the Mount Hope Bridge in Bristol, Rhode Island, and the grounds have been farmed since the 1680s. The present are a remonant of a much larger property that included Mount Hope the traditional seat of the Wampanoag people. The main house on the farm was built in several stages, the earliest portion dating to c. 1745. Its builder was Isaac Royall, Jr., a noted merchant and owner of plantations in the West Indies. It was purchased in 1783 by William Bradford, who passed the property on to his children. In 1837 it was purchased from his heirs by Samuel W. Church, a wealthy merchant from Taunton, Massachusetts, who made a major addition to the house in 1840. In 1917 the property was purchased by R. F. Haffenreffer, a wealthy industrialist and collector.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NRHP nomination for Mount Hope Farm )〕 The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.〔 It is now operated as a bed and breakfast inn and function facility. File:Mount_Hope_Farm_with_sign_2013.jpg|Mount Hope Farm sign File:The_garden_at_Mount_Hope_Farm.jpg|The garden behind the Governor Bradford house File:The_Barn_at_Mount_Hope_Farm.jpg|The Barn File:Mount_Hope_Farm,_Bradford_House,_side_view.jpg|Side view of Governor Bradford House ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mount Hope Farm」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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