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Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow House
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| Location: | Newton, Massachusetts |
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| Built: | 1887 |
| Architect: | Henry Hobson Richardson |
| Architectural style: | Shingle Style |
| Governing body: | Local |
| NRHP Reference#: | 76000266[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | January 1, 1976 |
The Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow House at 72-80 Ober Road in Newton, Massachusetts is one of the last private residences designed by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson.[2] Designed in 1885, the building was built just a few years before Bigelow's death. The house was restored and divided into five condos in the 1980s by the PBS television series This Old House.[3] Some of the original features, including a circular tower, have been preserved. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places at 742 Dedham Street.[1]
Henry Jacob Bigelow was a well known Boston surgeon and a professor at Harvard Medical College. Interestingly, Bigelow's father, Jacob Bigelow, a co-founder of Harvard Medical College and MIT, was also a noted architect, designing Bigelow Chapel and the George Washington Memorial Tower in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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