Dow House may refer to the following buildings in the United States :
The First Parish Church is a historic church at 50 Church Street in Waltham, Massachusetts, whose Unitarian Universalist congregation has a history dating to c. 1696. The current meeting house was built in 1933 after a fire destroyed the previous building on the same site. It is a Classical Revival structure designed by the nationally known Boston firm of Allen & Collens. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church Complex is a historic multi-building church complex at 133 School Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Established as a parish in 1835, it is the city's oldest Roman Catholic establishment. Its 1858 Romanesque Revival church and 1872 Second Empire rectory are particularly fine architectural examples of their styles. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The Aaron Martin House is a historic house in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in the 1890s by Waltham Watch Company employee and real estate speculator Aaron Martin. It is a particularly well-preserved local example of Queen Anne styling. It has a variety of projections, gables, and porches, in a manner typical of the style, as well as a 3+1⁄2-story tower with a bell-shaped roof. Its porches are elaborately decorated with gingerbread woodwork.
The Leonard W. Stanley House is a historic house in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1855-56 by Leonard Stanley, a policeman. It is one of the oldest houses on the South Side of Waltham, which the city purchased from Newton in 1849, and is an unusual local example of transitional Federal/Italianate styling. Its basic massing is somewhat typically Federalist, with a five bay facade and side gable roof. However, it has deep eaves and segmented-arch attic windows, typical Italianate features. The main block was extended with ells in the 1870s and 1880s.
Lord's Castle is a historic house at 211 Hammond Street in Waltham, Massachusetts.
The Rev. Thomas Hill House is a historic house in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1845 for the noted clergyman Thomas Hill. He was resident at the house while he served as minister of Waltham's First Parish, and for two other periods before his death in 1891. The house is a transitional Greek Revival-Italianate structure, three bays wide, with a side-gable roof that has bracketed eaves.
The William Gibbs House is a historic house in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1830–54, this 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house is one Waltham's few temple-front Greek Revival houses. It has four two-story Corinthian columns supporting a fully pedimented gable with a deep, dentillated cornice. It was probably built in the 1840s by William Gibbs, a hat manufacturer, and was sold by him to another hat maker who lost it to foreclosure.
The Warren White House is a historic house in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1850–54, and is the oldest surviving house on Warren Street, once an important thoroughfare between Waltham and Belmont. The house has classic Italianate styling, with a symmetrical three-bay facade, wide cornerboards and entablature, and round-arched gable windows. It was built by Warren White, a wheelwright, on land owned by David White, a farmer, who sold Warren White the property in 1855.
The Charles Baker House is a historic house in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built about 1880, it is one of the city's best examples of Stick style architecture, and a good example of worker housing built for employees of the Waltham Watch Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The Charles Baker Property is a historic house in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built about 1882, it is a well-preserved example of a period two-family residence built for workers of the American Watch Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The Charles Byam House is a historic house in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built in 1886, it is a well-preserved example of a modestly scaled Queen Anne period residence. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The Nathan Warren House was a historic house at 50 Weston Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1889-90 the 2+1⁄2-story house was one of the city's finest Queen Anne residences, with a turret and porte cochere, as well as a variety of decorated projecting sections. The house was built by Nathan Warren, who wrote a history of Waltham, was active in local and state politics, and who was a member of an exploratory expedition to the Yellowstone area in 1873.
The James Swasey House was a historic house at 30 Common Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1846, the 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was a well-preserved example of vernacular Greek Revival architecture, of a sort that were typically built at the time as housing for local mill workers. James Swasey, the carpenter who built the house, and his wife occupied the house into the 20th century.
The Potter–O'Brian House was a historic house at 206 Newton Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story brick house was built c. 1850, and was the city's only brick Italianate house. One of the older houses on the city's South Side, it was built when the area was still part of Newton. At the time Waltham purchased the territory from Newton, Edward Potter owned the house. It was owned by the O'Brian family for many years.
The Newell D. Johnson House is a historic house at 428 Lexington Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1894, and is one of the most elaborate Queen Anne houses in the city's Piety Corner neighborhood. It has an octagonal tower at one corner with a pyramidal roof, bands of decorative cut wood shingling, and fluted porch posts. Newell Johnson, a dentist, had thi house built on the site of the Sanderson House, one of the first to be built in the area.
The Hager–Mead House is a historic house at 411 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1795, and is one of the city's small number of 18th-century houses. It is five bays wide and two deep, with chimneys set in the ridge, and a center entry flanked by Doric pilasters and topped by a six-pane transom window and modillioned cornice. The house was built by Samuel Hager, a farmer from Watertown, who promptly sold it Stephen Mead, a blacksmith, in 1796.
The Fuller–Bemis House is a historic house at 41–43 Cherry Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1776, and is one of Waltham's few 18th century houses. It was built when the south side, where it is located, was still part of Newton. It was converted into a two-family structure in the 19th century. Its relatively plain Georgian styling sets it apart from the later 19th century housing that surrounds it.
The Henry N. Fisher House is a historic house at 120 Crescent Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with the asymmetrical massing typical of Queen Anne houses. It has a wraparound porch with turned posts, lattice railing, and a sunburst motif in the gabled pediment above the steps. The interior has well-preserved woodwork and marble fireplaces. The house was built c. 1881–86, and is a well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian on the city's south side. It was home for many years to Henry N. Fisher, who served as city mayor in the late 1880s, and was a foreman at the Waltham Watch Company.
The Francis Buttrick House is a historic house at 44 Harvard Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built before 1852, it is one of a small number of temple-front Greek Revival houses in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
