Hyde House
- Year
- 1800
- Style
- Greek Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The Hyde House is a Greek Revival house at 27 George Street in Newton, Massachusetts, whose oldest portion is believed to date to 1709, when an earlier structure burned and was rebuilt on the spot. The house was added onto many times over two centuries and then physically moved from its original site on Centre Street to its current location in 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 1986.
the building
Sidehall plan and wraparound porch. The 2 1/2-story house follows a sidehall plan, with a columned porch wrapping around two sides -- a Greek Revival treatment layered onto a structure that may retain timbers reaching back to 1709.
the style
Greek Revival is expressed here mainly in the columned wraparound porch, added to a much older timber frame that had already been rebuilt once and added onto repeatedly before the whole house was moved to this site in 1909.
More on Greek Revivalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 1986. The surrounding land was held by the Hyde family for eight generations, until George Hyde sold the remaining farmland for development in the late 19th century.
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