Adams-Magoun House

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Coordinates: 42°23′45.8736″N 71°6′3.348″W / 42.396076000°N 71.10093000°W / 42.396076000; -71.10093000
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Adams-Magoun House
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Somerville MPS
NRHP reference No.89001239 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 18, 1989

The Adams-Magoun House is a historic house at 438 Broadway in Somerville, Massachusetts. Built about 1783, it is one of the city's few surviving 18th-century buildings and its best-preserved. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

Description and history

The Adams-Magoun House stands on

transom window and gabled pediment. The interior follows a typical center hall plan, and has retained a number of original features, including particularly ornate turned balusters on the main staircase.[2]

The house was built by Joseph Adams in 1783, and was the farmstead house for a farm of 71 acres (29 ha). It is one of a handful of 18th-century houses in Somerville, and its main entry transom window is believed to be one of the oldest of its type in the Boston area.

school committee as an overseer of the poor, and was a captain in the militia.[4][5] At the time of Adams' marriage to Magoun, the farm extended from Broadway to the Boston and Maine Railroad, between Central and Lowell streets.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "NRHP nomination and MACRIS inventory record for Adams-Magoun House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
  3. ^ a b Zellie, Carole (1982). Beyond the Neck, The Architecture and Development of Somerville, Massachusetts. Cambridge: Landscape Research. pp. 16, 100.
  4. ^ Biographical sketches of representative citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Boston: Graves & Steinbarger. 1901. p. 986.
  5. ISBN 9780738512907
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