Charles Adams-Woodbury Locke House

Charles Adams - Woodbury Locke House
Location Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°23′38.7″N 71°5′59″W / 42.394083°N 71.09972°W / 42.394083; -71.09972Coordinates: 42°23′38.7″N 71°5′59″W / 42.394083°N 71.09972°W / 42.394083; -71.09972
Area less than one acre
Built 1840
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Greek Revival
MPS Somerville MPS
NRHP Reference # 89001240[1]
Added to NRHP September 18, 1989

The Charles Adams-Woodbury Locke House is an historic house at 178 Central Street in Somerville, Massachusetts. The Greek Revival house[2] was built about 1840 for a Boston leather merchant and was one of the first residences of a commuter, rather than a farmer, in the Winter Hill neighborhood of the city.[3] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

Description and history

The Adams House is located on the west side of Central Street, a short way south of Broadway, the major roadway that passes over Winter Hill. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, three bays wide, with a front-facing gable roof and clapboard siding. The building has wide corner boards and a broad entablature, and the gable is fully pedimented. A single-story porch extends across the front, supported by Doric columns, with a balustrade above. The main entrance is in the right-most bay, flanked by sidelight windows. The interior has retained much of its original woodwork.[4]

Built about 1840, the house is a fine local example of Greek Revival architecture. Its original parcel of land (now subdivided into residential plots), extended from Broadway to Medford Street. Charles Adams was a farmer, state legislator, and one of the first tenants of Boston's Quincy Market. Adams gave land for a schoolhouse on Broadway (now the site of the Winter Hill Congregational Church). Woodbury Locke, a later resident, was involved in the leather business in Boston.[4]

See also

Floor plans as of 1993

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Betsy Friedberg and Carole Zellie (March 1989). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Somerville Multiple Resource Area" (pdf). page 10. National Park Service.
  3. ↑ Carole Zellie (1982). Beyond the Neck, The Architecture and Development of Somerville, Massachusetts. Landscape Research. p. 101.
  4. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Charles Adams-Woodbury Locke House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-06-16.
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