Hotel Adelaide

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Location 13–21 High St., Brookline, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°19′51″N71°7′6″W / 42.33083°N 71.11833°W / 42.33083; -71.11833 Coordinates: 42°19′51″N71°7′6″W / 42.33083°N 71.11833°W / 42.33083; -71.11833
Built 1875
Architect Smith, Obed F.
Architectural style Gothic
MPS Brookline MRA
NRHP reference #

85003276

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Added to NRHP October 17, 1985

The Hotel Adelaide is a historic apartment house at 13–21 High Street in the Pill Hill neighborhood of Brookline, Massachusetts, United States. Built in 1875, it is one of the earliest known examples of a duplex-style apartment house, in which the individual units occupy space on two floors, connected by a private staircase. The building and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]

Pill Hill, Brookline, Massachusetts Place in Massachusetts, United States

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National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

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Description and history

The Hotel Adelaide is set at the southwest corner of High and Walnut Streets, at the base of Pill Hill, a neighborhood of fashionable Queen Anne houses. It is a long three story brick structure, with sandstone trim. Notable exterior features include beltcourses of stone between the floors, and narrower stringcourses of stone at the base of the windows, with decorative stone hoods over the windows. A portion of the building at the southern end has a curved bay section and separate entrance, and is topped by a mansard roof; the function of this part of the hotel is unknown, but was an original feature. [2]

The building was built in 1875 by Eben Wright, a real estate investor from Nahant, who owned this property and the nearby Hotel Kempsford. The building was designed by Brookline architect Obed Smith, who described as innovative the internal layout of the units, with two floors separated by a private staircase, in an 1884 publication. The style would later be emulated in other Brookline apartment houses including the Building at 30-34 Station Street. [2]

Nahant, Massachusetts Town in Massachusetts, United States

Nahant is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 3,410 at the 2010 census, which makes it the smallest municipality by population in Essex County. With just 1.0 square mile (2.7 km2) of land area, it is the smallest municipality by area in the state. It is primarily a residential community.

Hotel Kempsford

The Hotel Kempsford is a historic apartment house at 72 Walnut Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The four story brick building was designed by Brookline architect Obed Smith and built in 1875 for Eben Wright, a real estate developer who also built the nearby Hotel Adelaide. This building is a high-quality local example of Victorian Gothic architecture in brick. The apartment units inside are also in a distinctive two-story plan, one of the earliest examples of the type.

Building at 30-34 Station Street

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Hotel Adelaide

See also

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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