Timothy Corey House No. 1
- Style
- Federal
- City
- Boston, MA
- Collection
- federal boston
The Timothy Corey House No. 1 is a historic house at 808 Washington Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, built around 1806 for Deacon Timothy Corey, cofounder of the town's first Baptist Church. It is a good example of vernacular Federal architecture and was home for over a century to the Corey family, prominent landowners for whom Corey Hill is named. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
the building
Five-bay Federal facade. The 2 1/2-story wood-frame house has a side-gable roof and clapboarded exterior, five bays wide and two deep, set back from the road on a rise behind a low stone retaining wall. A single-story open porch across the front, added around 1920, carries a covered portico above the center entrance.
the style
The house is a vernacular example of Federal architecture, built c. 1806 with the plain clapboarded massing and side-gable roof typical of the style, later given a more decorative entrance porch around 1920.
More on Federalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The Corey family, who gave Corey Hill its name, had held land in the area since the 1760s and ran a farm and orchard there for generations.
nearby
- Brighton Evangelical Congregational Church
- Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
- Saint Aidan's Church and Rectory
- Saint Paul's Episcopal Church
- Saint Paul's Rectory
- Ebenezer Heath House