Israel Whitney House

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Israel Whitney House
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Location963 Central Avenue,
Needham, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°17′16″N71°15′8″W / 42.28778°N 71.25222°W / 42.28778; -71.25222 Coordinates: 42°17′16″N71°15′8″W / 42.28778°N 71.25222°W / 42.28778; -71.25222
Built1830
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Federal
NRHP reference No. 88000160 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 25, 1988

The Israel Whitney House is a historic house in Needham, Massachusetts. It is a 2+12-story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and clapboard siding. Its front facade is symmetrical, with a center entrance flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and a corniced entablature on top. The house was built in 1830 by Israel Whitney, who had married Mary Fuller, a descendant of one of Needham's early settlers. Whitney had purchased the land on which the house was built in 1829. Whitney was a shoemaker and active in local politics, holding a variety of offices. [2]

In the 1940s, the house was sold to Elizabeth D. Revere, the wife of a distant relative of Paul Revere. [3]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [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 Israel Whitney House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  3. "The History of Needham". www2.needham.k12.ma.us. Retrieved 2020-06-22.