The Russell House is a historic house in Andover, Massachusetts.
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| Location | 28 Rocky Hill Road, Andover, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°37′5″N 71°7′14″W / 42.61806°N 71.12056°W |
| Built | 1805 |
| Architectural style | Federal |
| MPS | Town of Andover MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 82004808[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 10, 1982 |
The weatherboarded Federal-style home was built in 1805. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The farm encompasses some 11 acres (4.5 ha).[2] The house and farm were owned by Deacon Joseph Russell, a descendant of Robert Russell, a Scotsman, who emigrated to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century and was the first person buried in Andover's newly created South Parish 'Burying-Yard,' as it was called, in 1710 at age 80.[3] Russell's descendants intermarried with the Holt, Abbott, Marshall, Chandler, Dane and other early Andover settler families. The 'Scotland District' name for that section of Andover derives from Robert Russell's Scottish birthplace,[4] and his subsequent name for his landholding which he called 'Scotland farm.'[5]
See also
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edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places, Essex County, Massachusetts".
- ^ Sarah Loring Bailey (1880). Historical Sketches of Andover. Houghton, Mifflin. p. 512. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
robert russell scotland andover.
- ^ Sarah Loring Bailey (1880). Historical Sketches of Andover. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston. p. 119. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
historical sketches of andover russell bailey.
- ^ William Richard Cutter; William Frederick Adams (1910). Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. IV. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York. Retrieved 2010-01-02.
Sources
edit- Burke's American Families with British Ancestry: The Lineages of 1,600 Families of British Origin Now Resident in the United States of America, Bernard Burke, Republished by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975, ISBN 0-8063-0662-9
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