Perkins Estate
- Architect
- Edward Clarke Cabot
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The Perkins Estate at 450 Warren Street began as the summer property of Thomas Handasyd Perkins, and the mansion standing there today was built in the 1850s to a Gothic Revival plan by Edward Clarke Cabot for his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Perkins Cabot. The grounds, originally laid out by Perkins himself, were maintained through subsequent generations of the family.
the building
Later ownership. In the 1980s the estate belonged to Mitch Kapor, founder of the software company Lotus Development, before its 1985 listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
the style
Cabot designed the mansion in Gothic Revival, a domestic-scale use of the style set against the civic classicism of his best-known building, the Boston Athenaeum.
More on Gothic Revivalthe architect
Edward Clarke Cabot is best known as the architect of the Boston Athenaeum; the Perkins Estate mansion was a family commission, built for his own sister-in-law, Elizabeth Perkins Cabot.
significance
The Perkins Estate was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
nearby
- Ebenezer Heath House
- George R. Minot House
- Brandegee Estate
- Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
- Timothy Corey House No. 1
- Kingsbury House