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Adams Claflin House

Year
1890
Style
Queen Anne
City
Boston, MA
Adams Claflin House
Photo: Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0
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The Adams Claflin House at 156 Grant Avenue in Newton Centre was built in 1890 to a design by Samuel Brown for Adams Davenport Claflin, son of Massachusetts Governor William Claflin. Claflin was a major Newtonville landowner, president of the Boston and Suburban Electric Company, and a major developer of the streetcar system that served Newton; he later served as president of Norumbega Park in Auburndale from its 1897 opening.

the building

Queen Anne and Colonial Revival details. The large 2½-story cross-gable, wood-frame house shows vestiges of the Queen Anne style in its asymmetrical massing and profusion of projections and gables, alongside Colonial Revival elements such as a Palladian window and a pedimented front porch.

the style

Though often labeled Queen Anne, the house actually blends Shingle-style form with vestiges of Queen Anne — asymmetrical massing and multiple gables — and Colonial Revival touches like a Palladian window and pedimented porch.

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the architect

Samuel Brown designed several houses for the Claflin family, of which this house is one.

significance

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 1986.

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