Captain Nathaniel Root, Sr. (1757-1840), a farmer, was one of the original seven proprietors who in 1813 agreed to erect a glass factory in Coventry, along the Boston Post Road. The Coventry glassworks would be in operation until 1849. Root built the Federal-style house at 1046 Boston Turnpike in 1809.
Nearby, the house at 351 North River Road, built c. 1830, was owned by Capt. Root as a tenant house:
The house at 994 Boston Turnpike was built c. 1840 by Nathaniel Root, Jr., another founder of the glassworks, and was also used as a tenant house:
Nathaniel Root House (1809)