Simpson House (Newton, Massachusetts)

Simpson House
Location 57 Hunnewell Ave., Newton, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°21′21″N 71°10′30″W / 42.35583°N 71.17500°WCoordinates: 42°21′21″N 71°10′30″W / 42.35583°N 71.17500°W
Built 1897
Architectural style Colonial Revival, Queen Anne
Governing body Private
MPS Newton MRA
NRHP Reference #

86001880

[1]
Added to NRHP September 04, 1986

The Simpson House is a historic house at 57 Hunnewell Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built in the late 1890s, and is an excellent local example of a well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian with some Colonial Revival features. It has roughly rectangular massing, but is visually diverse, with a number of gables and projections. A single story porch across the front extends over the drive to form a porte cochere, and rests on fieldstone piers with Tuscan columns. The stairs to the entry are called out by a triangular pediment, above which is a Palladian window with flanking columns. Joseph Simpson, its first owner, was a principal in the Simpson Brothers paving company.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Simpson House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-20.