Harnden Farm

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Harnden Farm
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Location261 Salem Street,
Andover, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°37′52″N71°6′32″W / 42.63111°N 71.10889°W / 42.63111; -71.10889 Coordinates: 42°37′52″N71°6′32″W / 42.63111°N 71.10889°W / 42.63111; -71.10889
Built1840
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPS Town of Andover MRA
NRHP reference No. 82004821 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 10, 1982

Harnden Farm, known today as Infinity Farm, is a historic farmstead in Andover, Massachusetts. It includes a farmhouse and barn, built c. 1840 for Jesse Harnden, a farmer who moved from Reading. The house is notable for its late Federal style elements as well as its Greek Revival styling. It is 2+12 stories high, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and end chimneys. Its main entrance is sheltered by a portico with fluted columns and a balustrade on its roof. The barn on the property is a rare surviving example of a Greek Revival barn. [2]

The farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for Harnden Farm". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-26.