The Simpson House is a historic house at 57 Hunnewell Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built in the late 1890s, and is an excellent local example of a well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian with some Colonial Revival features. It has roughly rectangular massing, but is visually diverse, with a number of gables and projections. A single story porch across the front extends over the drive to form a porte cochere, and rests on fieldstone piers with Tuscan columns. The stairs to the entry are called out by a triangular pediment, above which is a Palladian window with flanking columns. Joseph Simpson, its first owner, was a principal in the Simpson Brothers paving company.[2]
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| Location | 57 Hunnewell Ave., Newton, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°21′21″N 71°10′30″W / 42.35583°N 71.17500°W |
| Built | 1897 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Queen Anne |
| MPS | Newton MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 86001880 [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 Simpson House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-20.