Simpson House (Newton, Massachusetts)

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]

Simpson House
Simpson House (Newton, Massachusetts) is located in Massachusetts
Simpson House (Newton, Massachusetts)
Simpson House (Newton, Massachusetts) is located in the United States
Simpson House (Newton, Massachusetts)
Location57 Hunnewell Ave., Newton, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°21′21″N 71°10′30″W / 42.35583°N 71.17500°W / 42.35583; -71.17500
Built1897
Architectural styleColonial Revival, Queen Anne
MPSNewton MRA
NRHP reference No.86001880 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 04, 1986

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "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.