Samuel Wheat House

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Samuel Wheat House
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Location399 Waltham St., Newton, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°21′12.8″N71°13′27.0″W / 42.353556°N 71.224167°W / 42.353556; -71.224167
Built1735
Architectural styleGeorgian
MPS Newton MRA
NRHP reference No. 86001895 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 04, 1986

The Samuel Wheat House is a historic house at 399 Waltham Street in Newton, Massachusetts. It is a 2+12-story timber-frame house, five bays wide, with a gambrel roof and clapboard siding. The front entrance is flanked by pilasters and topped by a gabled pediment. The house was built c. 1735, probably for Dr. Samuel Wheat, Jr, and is one of the oldest houses in the city. It was probably built with the gambrel roof, but the dormers are a 19th-century addition. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [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 Samuel Wheat House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-23.