The Perkins Estate is a historic estate at 450 Warren Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The property was part of the summer estate of the Cabot family, originally belonging to Thomas Handasyd Perkins; the present main mansion house was built in the 1850s to a plan by Edward Clarke Cabot for his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Perkins Cabot. The grounds of the property were originally designed by Perkins, and subsequent generations maintained the grounds to a high degree. In the 1980s it was owned by Mitch Kapor,[2] founder of Lotus Software.
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| Location | 450 Warren St., Brookline, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°19′14″N 71°8′39″W / 42.32056°N 71.14417°W |
| Area | 22 acres (8.9 ha) |
| Architect | Edward Clarke Cabot |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival, Picturesque |
| MPS | Brookline MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 85003306 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 17, 1985 |
The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Perkins Estate". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-21.