Thayer House
- Year
- 1860
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The Thayer House is a historic house at 17 Channing Street in Newton, Massachusetts, built around 1860 as an unusual combination of Carpenter Gothic and Second Empire styling. It stands in a neighborhood carved out of cabinetmaker Phineas A. Johnson's land by developers Joseph N. Bacon and Luke Forbes, on what was originally called Linden Street before Newton renamed it Channing Street in 1878. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
the building
Three gables and scroll-sawn wood. The front facade rises in three steeply pitched gables clad in flushboarding, their windows framed by scroll-sawn decoration. Rounded corner pilasters mark the corners, and the entrance is framed by Ionic columns beneath a low-pitch gable carrying still more scroll-sawn woodwork.
Mansard-roofed addition. A mansard-roofed wing extends from the rear of the house, adding a dose of Second Empire massing to the Carpenter Gothic front and giving the building its unusual stylistic mix.
the style
The house mixes two Victorian-era vocabularies: Carpenter Gothic in its steep flushboard gables and scroll-sawn trim, and Second Empire in its rear mansard roof -- an unusual pairing for a 1 1/2-story wood-frame house of this size.
More on Gothic Revivalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
nearby
- House at 60 William Street
- Grace Episcopal Church
- Rawson Estate
- Samuel Jackson, Jr. House
- John Souther House
- William Blodgett House