S. Curtis Smith House

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Curtis S. Smith House
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Location56 Fairmont Ave., Newton, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°20′58″N71°11′27″W / 42.34944°N 71.19083°W / 42.34944; -71.19083 Coordinates: 42°20′58″N71°11′27″W / 42.34944°N 71.19083°W / 42.34944; -71.19083
Built1883
Architectural styleQueen Anne
MPS Newton MRA
NRHP reference No. 86001881 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 04, 1986

The S. Curtis Smith House is a historic house at 56 Fairmont Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts. The 2+12-story wood-frame house was built c. 1883, and is one of Newton's finest Queen Anne Victorian houses. It exhibits a full range of that style's features, including asymmetrical massing with numerous and varied gables, a tower with an octagonal arched roof, bands of different types of shingling, and an ornately decorated front portico. The house was built for S. Curtis Smith, a schoolteacher. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as the "Curtis S. Smith House". [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. "NRHP nomination for S. Curtis Smith House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-21.