The Kistler House is a historic house at 945 Beacon Street in Newton, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in 1893, and is one of Newton Center's most elaborate Colonial Revival houses. It has a veranda that wraps around two sides of the house, although a porch shelters the front facade. The porch is supported by clusters of slender columns, with a projecting central section framing the main entrance, which has leaded glass sidelight windows. A Palladian window stands above the main entrance, and the cornice line is embellished with egg-and-dart moulding, dentil moulding, and a frieze decorated with swags. Andrew Kistler, the owner, was a leather dealer working in Boston.[2]
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| Location | 945 Beacon St., Newton, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°19′50″N 71°12′5″W / 42.33056°N 71.20139°W |
| Built | 1893 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | Newton MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 86001849 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 04, 1986 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Kistler House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-16.