Oliver Hastings House
- Year
- 1844
- Style
- Greek Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
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Built in 1844 by local builder Oliver Hastings as his own home, this Cambridge house stands adjacent to the home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, now the Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site. It is considered an excellent example of Greek Revival architecture and was later home to William Lawrence, a professor. The house is a National Historic Landmark.
the building
The rounded portico. The house's most prominent feature is the rounded portico on the front facade, flanked by full-height windows on either side and carried on fluted Corinthian columns at ground level, with iron grillwork accenting the second-floor exterior.
A T-shaped plan. Two main stories sit beneath a hip roof with a central monitor that creates a partial third floor. The plan is T-shaped, with a rear section extending one bay beyond the sides of the main block; broad stripped pilasters mark the corners, and the cornice carries dentil molding.
the style
A textbook Greek Revival house: pilastered corners, a dentillated cornice, and a columned, rounded portico, though the interior has since been altered by later institutional owners.
More on Greek Revivalsignificance
Designated a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
- Mary Fiske Stoughton House
- Edwin Abbot House
- William Dean Howells House
- Building at 10 Follen Street
- Christ Church