William Monroe Trotter House
William Monroe Trotter House | |
Dorchester, Massachusetts | |
| Coordinates | 42°18′47″N 71°3′46″W / 42.31306°N 71.06278°W |
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| Built | c. 1890s |
| NRHP reference No. | 76002003 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 11, 1976[1] |
| Designated NHL | May 11, 1976[2] |
The William Monroe Trotter House is a historic house at 97 Sawyer Avenue, atop Jones Hill in the
Description
The Trotter House is a 2+1⁄2-story balloon-framed wooden structure, resting on a rubble granite foundation.[3] It is set high on Jones Hill, where Trotter wrote that he could see "from the sitting room window all over the country as far as Blue Hill and from my bed-room window over all the bay down to ... Deer Island."[4] A single-story porch extends across the width of the main (southern) facade, with stairs on the left providing access to the entrance. The facade is two bays wide, with the front door in the left bay, and sash windows in the right bay and on the upper level. A pair of smaller gable windows occupy the center of the gable section.[3]
The east side of the house has a projecting half-hexagonal bay in its northern extent. The left (west) side of the house is relatively plain, and extends further back than the east side, because of a two-story ell at the rear of the house. The interior stairwell on the left side is illuminated by a square window with colored panes.[3]
The house was designated a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 for its association with William Monroe Trotter.[2][3] In 1977, the exterior and the grounds were designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission. It is not open to the public.[5]
William Monroe Trotter
William Monroe Trotter was born in
Trotter purchased 97 Sawyer Avenue in 1899, and moved in with his wife Geraldine. His dedication to the cause of civil rights drained his finances, however, and he eventually lost not just investment properties, but his home as well. After a high-profile meeting with President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 drew news coverage for the heated exchanges between the two men, Trotter became an increasingly marginalized voice of protest, and died in 1934.[3]
Gallery
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William Monroe Trotter House in 1980
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See also
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Boston
- National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts
External links
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ a b "William Monroe Trotter House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved September 5, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e f Lynn Gomez Graves and John E. Fleming (February 3, 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: William Monroe Trotter House" (pdf). National Park Service.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) and Accompanying 3 photos, exterior, from 1975 (32 KB) - ^ Wolters, Du Bois and His Rivals, p. 61
- ^ "We Shall Overcome: William Monroe Trotter House". National Park Service. Retrieved December 26, 2012.
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