Hammond House
- Architect
- Harold Field Kellogg
- Year
- 1714
- Style
- Colonial Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
With an estimated construction date between 1645 and 1730, the Hammond House at 9 Old Orchard Road is believed to be the oldest house in Newton, Massachusetts. It began as a First Period single-cell dwelling of three bays with the chimney set behind one bay, then was expanded to five bays later in the First Period -- decades earlier than such expansions typically occurred. The original owner-builder was Hon. Ebenezer Stone, who moved to the site from his family's homestead at Mount Auburn in Watertown.
the building
Single-cell to five bays. The house's core began as a compact three-bay, single-cell plan with the chimney set behind one bay. It was widened to five bays while still in the First Period, an unusually early date for that kind of expansion, which more commonly happened during the Georgian 18th century. The original core survives just east of the main entrance.
the style
Classified as a First Period house with later Colonial Revival-era work, it is a rare case of an expansion carried out within the First Period itself rather than the Georgian period that followed.
More on Colonial Revivalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. In the early 2020s it was remodeled in a project that removed most of the historic interior finishes in favor of a non-historic contemporary aesthetic.
nearby
- Kingsbury House
- Reginald A. Fessenden House
- Adams Claflin House
- Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
- Smith-Peterson House
- Amos Adams House