Russell House (Andover, Massachusetts)

Russell House
Location Andover, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°37′5″N 71°7′14″W / 42.61806°N 71.12056°WCoordinates: 42°37′5″N 71°7′14″W / 42.61806°N 71.12056°W
Built 1805
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Federal
Governing body Private
MPS Town of Andover MRA
NRHP Reference # 82004808[1]
Added to NRHP June 10, 1982

The Russell House is a historic house at 28 Rocky Hill Road in Andover, Massachusetts.

The weatherboarded Federal-style home was built in 1805. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The farm encompasses some 11 acres (4.5 ha).[2] The house and farm were owned by Deacon Joseph Russell, a descendant of Robert Russell, a Scotsman, who emigrated to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century and was the first person buried in Andover's newly created South Parish 'Burying-Yard,' as it was called, in 1710 at age 80.[3] Russell's descendants intermarried with the Holt, Abbott, Marshall, Chandler, Dane and other early Andover settler families. The 'Scotland District' name for that section of Andover derives from Robert Russell's Scottish birthplace,[4] and his subsequent name for his landholding which he called 'Scotland farm.'[5]

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  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places, Essex County, Massachusetts".
  3. ↑ Sarah Loring Bailey (1880). Historical Sketches of Andover. p. 512. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
  4. ↑ Sarah Loring Bailey (1880). Historical Sketches of Andover. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
  5. ↑ William Richard Cutter; William Frederick Adams (1910). Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. IV. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York. Retrieved 2010-01-02.

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