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"Cushing House" (formerly known as the "Benjamin Cushing, Sr. House") is a historic colonial house in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a $2 1/2$-story gable-roofed wood-frame structure, built in 1737 for merchant Benjamin Cushing, Sr. It is five bays wide, with a large central chimney typical of the period, although it is unique among surviving structures as an example of the design transition from vernacular styles to the Georgian aesthetic. Cushing House is further notable as a site where French Army officers were billeted upon their return from Virginia in 1782, during the American Revolutionary War, and as the location of Dr. Elihue Whipple's home and study in H. P. Lovecraft's short story The Shunned House.

The house is currently owned by The Stoermer Family Trust and contains a significant private collection of 18th-century portraiture, including works by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Charles Jervas, Thomas Hudson, Robert Feke, William Aikman, and Gilbert Stuart.