Adams-Magoun House

Adams-Magoun House
Location 438 Broadway, Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°23′45.8736″N 71°6′3.348″W / 42.396076000°N 71.10093000°W / 42.396076000; -71.10093000Coordinates: 42°23′45.8736″N 71°6′3.348″W / 42.396076000°N 71.10093000°W / 42.396076000; -71.10093000
Area less than one acre
Built 1783
Architectural style Federal
MPS Somerville MPS
NRHP Reference #

89001239

[1]
Added to NRHP September 18, 1989

The Adams-Magoun House, built ca. 1783, is a good example of Federal period architecture at 438 Broadway in near Magoun Square in Somerville, Massachusetts. Although built during the Federal period, and showing that influence, the floor plan is traditional four-room Georgian. It is a five-bay, gable roof house and has what is reportedly one of the earliest five-part leaded fanlights in the Boston area.[2]

It was built by Joseph Adams in 1783. Adams was married to Sarah Tufts, whose extended family owned large tracts of land in the town, including the tracts which eventually became Tufts University. She was the daughter of Peter and Anne Tufts.[3]

Their daughter, Sarah Ann Adams, married John C. Magoun (1797 - 1882), for whom Magoun Square is named.[4] Magoun was the local Assessor for twenty-eight years and was Captain in the militia at the time of the visit by the Marquis de Lafayette in 1826.[5] At the time of Adams' marriage to Magoun, the 71-acre (0.29 km2) Adams farm extended from Broadway to the Boston and Maine Railroad, between Central and Lowell streets.[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Somerville Multiple Resource Area" (PDF). National Park Service. 2009-10-12.
  3. 1 2 Zellie, Carole (1982). Beyond the Neck, The Architecture and Development of Somerville, Massachusetts. Cambridge: Landscape Research. pp. 16, 100.
  4. ↑ Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell. "Somerville", p. 17
  5. ↑ Biographical sketches of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts ... (Google eBook), (Graves & Steinbarger, 1901) pg. 986

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