Seth Adams House

Seth Adams House
Location 72 Jewett St., Newton, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°21′31″N 71°11′27″W / 42.35861°N 71.19083°W / 42.35861; -71.19083Coordinates: 42°21′31″N 71°11′27″W / 42.35861°N 71.19083°W / 42.35861; -71.19083
Built 1860
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Italianate
MPS Newton MRA
NRHP Reference #

86001768

[1]
Added to NRHP September 4, 1986

The Seth Adams House is a historic house located at 72 Jewett Street, in the village of Newton Corner, in Newton, Massachusetts. It is a 2 1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, four bays wide, with a front-facing gable, and an elaborately decorated porch that wraps around two sides. The house was, in the 1870s, home to Seth Adams, one of Newton's wealthiest residents and a major benefactor of the Adams-Nervine Asylum in Jamaica Plain.[2] The house is now a condominium consisting of 3 apartments.[3] On September 4, 1986, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Seth Adams House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-05-29.
  3. ↑ City of Newton real property database


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