Edward Gardner House
Edward Gardner House | ||
MPS Winchester MRA | | |
| NRHP reference No. | 89000605 [1] | |
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| Added to NRHP | July 5, 1989 | |
The Edward Gardner House is a historic house at Zero Gardner Place in Winchester, Massachusetts. Built about 1764, it is one of the oldest buildings in Winchester, and is also important for its association with the Gardner family, who were early settlers of the area. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
Description and history
The Edward Gardner House is located in central southern Winchester, at the northeast corner of Cambridge Street (
The land this house stands on was originally granted to Increase Nowell, who never lived on his 300-acre (120 ha) grant. By 1651 Richard Gardner was living on this land, which he purchased in 1659. Edward Gardner, one of his fifth-generation descendants built this house about 1764, the year he inherited the land. His descendants included Henry Gardner, the Massachusetts treasurer during the
The house was purchased in 1931 by F. Patterson Smith, a Harvard-educated architect who later became dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, who undertook its restoration. His work included the removal of a 19th-century shoe-shop wing (now 2 Gardner Place), and converted the barn (which also stands on a now-separate lot) to a Shingle-style residence. This house is one of two in the town that predate the Revolution.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b c "NRHP nomination for Edward Gardner House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-14.
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