Stephen Barker House

Stephen Barker House
Stephen Barker House c. 2008
Location Methuen, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°42′24″N 71°11′57″W / 42.70667°N 71.19917°W / 42.70667; -71.19917Coordinates: 42°42′24″N 71°11′57″W / 42.70667°N 71.19917°W / 42.70667; -71.19917
Built 1839
Architectural style Greek Revival
MPS Methuen MRA
NRHP Reference #

84002307

[1]
Added to NRHP January 20, 1984

Stephen Barker House is a historic house at 165 Haverhill Street in Methuen, Massachusetts.

Built in 1839, it is one of several handsome houses built at the periphery of the Methuen settlement in the mid-19th Century, and remains a well conserved "country Residence". Reportedly, surveyor Stephen Barker built "Woodland Cottage" in imitation of antebellum mansions he had seen in the South.[2]

Stephen Barker Place c 1900.

Barker, from one of Methuen's original families, had gone to seek his fortune in Tennessee and sent home enough money to build a house. The old farm house was moved and on its site was built this imitation of a Southern mansion. The details of the house, such as the entrance, the Doric columns and frieze board above, classify it as Greek Revival. The builder freely adapted traditional elements: rows of dormers, triangular windows in the gable end, and railing above the porch mimicking gingerbread fretwork.[3]

It was added to the National Historic Register in 1984.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Gagnon, Dan (2001). "Methuen History.org". Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  3. ↑ Radocchia, Jane Griswold (May 20, 1990). "Sunday Drives - Barker Homestead, Woodland St., Methuen, c1830". Eagle Tribune. Retrieved 2009-05-21.
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