Ebenezer Heath House
- Style
- Federal
- City
- Boston, MA
- Collection
- federal boston
The Ebenezer Heath House at 30 Heath Street in Brookline was built in 1794 by John Heath for his son Ebenezer and daughter-in-law Hannah (Williams) Heath, a family tied by marriage to the locally prominent Sewall landowners. The two-story wood-frame Federal house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
the building
Entrance surround. The five-bay house has a hip roof pierced by a pair of chimneys set behind the center roofline, and a main entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a four-light transom window and a dentillated triangular pediment.
the style
A Federal-era house whose entrance surround — pilasters, a transom window, and a dentillated pediment — carries the style's formal, symmetrical detailing.
More on Federalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
nearby
- Perkins Estate
- George R. Minot House
- Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
- Timothy Corey House No. 1
- Brandegee Estate
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