The Israel Whitney House is a historic house in Needham, Massachusetts. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and clapboard siding. Its front facade is symmetrical, with a center entrance flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and a corniced entablature on top. The house was built in 1830 by Israel Whitney, who had married Mary Fuller, a descendant of one of Needham's early settlers. Whitney had purchased the land on which the house was built in 1829. Whitney was a shoemaker and active in local politics, holding a variety of offices.[2]
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| Location | 963 Central Avenue, Needham, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°17′16″N 71°15′8″W / 42.28778°N 71.25222°W |
| Built | 1830 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Federal |
| NRHP reference No. | 88000160[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 25, 1988 |
In the 1940s, the house was sold to Elizabeth D. Revere, the wife of a distant relative of Paul Revere.[3]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[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 Israel Whitney House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
- ^ "The History of Needham". www2.needham.k12.ma.us. Retrieved 2020-06-22.