Linden Place is a historic house museum in Bristol, Rhode Island

Bristol, Rhode Island

Bristol is a town in and the historic county seat of Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 22,954 at the 2010 census. Bristol, a deepwater seaport, is named after Bristol, England....

 that was home to the Colts and DeWolfs, two of the largest slave trading families in the United States

United States

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The house was built in 1810 by ‎Russell Warren

Russell Warren (architect)

Russell Warren was an American architect, best known for his Greek Revival style, and notably the design of the Weybosset Arcade, now known as the Westminster Arcade in Providence, Rhode Island.Warren was born in Tiverton, Rhode Island...

 for the seafarer and general, George DeWolf. It was prominently featured in Traces of the Trade, a 2007 documentary about the DeWolf family, and was also a filming location for the 1974 movie The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby (1974 film)

The Great Gatsby is a 1974 romantic drama film distributed by Newdon Productions and Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by David Merrick, from a screenplay by Francis Ford Coppola based on F...

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Prominent residents

• Samuel P. Colt
  Samuel P. Colt
  Samuel Pomeroy Colt was an industrialist and politician from Rhode Island.He was born in Paterson, New Jersey on January 10, 1852, the youngest of six children born to Christopher Colt and Theodora Goujand DeWolf Colt of Bristol, Rhode Island...
  
  , politician, industrialist (died at Linden Place in 1921)