Jacob Stanton House | |
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Location | 21 Washington Street, Winchester, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°26′59″N71°8′4″W / 42.44972°N 71.13444°W |
Built | 1840 |
Architectural style | Greek Revival |
MPS | Winchester MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 89000614 [1] |
Added to NRHP | July 5, 1989 |
The Jacob Stanton House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts, United States. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house with a gabled front portico supported by two-story smooth columns. The main facade and the gable end are finished in flushboarding, and the second-story balcony features an ironwork railing. The house was built c. 1840 by Deacon Nathan Brooks Johnson, a local blacksmith who may have made the balcony railings. It is Winchester's only high-style temple-front Greek Revival house. After Johnson's death it was purchased by Jacob Stanton, who built the Brown & Stanton Block in downtown Winchester. [2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]
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