Simpson House (Newton, Massachusetts)

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Simpson House
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Location57 Hunnewell Ave., Newton, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°21′21″N71°10′30″W / 42.35583°N 71.17500°W / 42.35583; -71.17500
Built1897
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Queen Anne
MPS Newton MRA
NRHP reference No. 86001880 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 04, 1986

The Simpson House is a historic house at 57 Hunnewell Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts. The 2+12-story wood-frame house was built in the late 1890s, and is an excellent local example of a well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian with some Colonial Revival features. It has roughly rectangular massing, but is visually diverse, with a number of gables and projections. A single story porch across the front extends over the drive to form a porte cochere, and rests on fieldstone piers with Tuscan columns. The stairs to the entry are called out by a triangular pediment, above which is a Palladian window with flanking columns. Joseph Simpson, its first owner, was a principal in the Simpson Brothers paving company. [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 Simpson House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-20.