Rawson Estate
- Year
- 1860
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The Rawson Estate at 41 Vernon Street in Newton Corner is an Italianate wood-frame house built around 1860 for Daniel Rawson, a boot and shoe merchant, on what was once a much larger family landholding.
the building
Symmetrical front. The 2½-story house has a symmetrical facade with a projecting central gable set with a round-arch window, and a front porch trimmed in ornate decorative woodwork.
the style
A well-preserved specimen of the Italianate estate house, a form that was once common in the Newton Corner area but has grown rare.
More on Renaissance Revivalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
nearby
- Grace Episcopal Church
- Samuel Jackson, Jr. House
- House at 60 William Street
- Simpson House
- Thayer House
- William Blodgett House