N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON HIGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLN HIGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON HIGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON HIGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLAN chDiscover Historicchch variation of the Hyde School plan, design follows the flank gable house 1 The tour begins at the Newton openings, have carved granite capi- Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad were sited along the Worcester were also designed by this firm. All form and utilizes a central gable to NEWTON Highlands railroad station, which tals. Iron tie rods (set in the pilasters) from which it was named. Louis K. Turnpike. A tollkeeper’s booth and the schools have been destroyed define the entrance bay. The project- was completed in June of 1887. The lend structural support to this build- Brigham, a salesman, was the original gate were erected adjacent to a marsh except the Hyde School, which suf- ing cornice, deep-raking eaves with one track Charles River Railroad (by ing. The distinctive guilloche and flo- owner of this Queen Anne style house and quicksand below Woodward fered a severe fire in April, 1981. paired pendant brackets and trefoil HIGHLANDS this time known as the Woonsocket ral motif visible in the center gable is at 20 Hartford Street (1886). Street, making it difficult for travelers (clover) shaped attic windows are Division of the New York and New made of terra cotta, a hard fired clay Brigham purchased a number of lots to “shunpike” (avoid the toll), a much uch of present day Newton Newton Upper Falls, and commuter Coolidge and Carlson of Boston was familiar Italianate elements. England Railroad) with its wooden that is used for architectural orna- on this street, which he soon devel- practiced habit. The turnpike, origi- Highlands was part of a trains ran infrequently, discouraging commissioned to design the adjacent rails, unsafe road bed, and inadequate ment. oped as a speculative investment. The nally privately owned, proved unprof- land grant in 1634 to John development. This was especially true addition to the school in 1906. This 32 St. Paul’s Episcopal Church was M service, had long been the source of Brigham Community House, a youth itable for its investors, and in 1833 it Haynes, a newly arrived wealthy during the 1860s when trains operated Neo-classical structure was designed moved to its present site at 1133 bitter complaints by village residents. 3 The Mansard style Whittemore’s and community center, currently was made into a public highway. This English landowner. He served as around the clock transporting gravel to house technical training courses Walnut Street in 1902. The entrance Realizing the necessity for better Block at 4-18 Lincoln Street occupies this picturesque residence. milestone originally stood on the Governor of the Colony the following for the filling of Boston’s Back Bay, an and space was provided for a branch vestibule and transept were added to service, James F. C. Hyde (Newton’s (1872-74) reflects the modest scale of Its complex silhouette and contrasting south side of the road, but was moved year, before moving to Connecticut immense project that lasted more than a of the public library. the chapel, which was built in 1883, at first Mayor) and others organized the village’s early commercial center. wall fabrics are characteristic features to its present site at the end of where he died in 1654. The land went decade. this time. Its architectural features, and eventually succeeded in having This block and Farnham’s Block of the Queen Anne style. Hartford Street during a to his heirs, and most of it was not sold 29 The Colonial Revival style reached pointed arched windows and doors the Highland Branch of the Boston opposite (demolished) were the vil- turn-of-the-century widening of for two or three generations. Even in Suburban growth occurred rapidly the height of its popularity in Newton with diagonal flush boards and and Albany Railroad constructed. Its lage’s first large commercial buildings. As the tour continues along Hartford Boylston Street. Colonial times, settlement in Newton in the 1870s once the Back Bay landfill Highlands during the early 1890s. It wrought iron hinges, mark the Gothic completion, in May 1886, renewed Samson Whittemore, a carpet sales- Street, notice that there are several Highlands was slow. project was virtually complete. By combined the Queen Anne freedom of Revival influence. The attached development at Newton Highlands. man/real estate entrepreneur, and outstanding entrance porches. The 8 The Cline Memorial Methodist 1874, the village was firmly plan with Colonial Revival detail, as parish house was constructed in 1905. Henry Hobson Richardson, Charles Farnham were key figures in profusion of wooden ornament is Episcopal Church (later Odd Only two high- established with illustrated by the residence at 49 America’s foremost 19th century Newton Highlands’ early develop- characteristically Queen Anne. Fellows Hall) was designed by archi- ways served the 521 new residents Columbus Street, ca. 1891. Its 33 This eclectic style house at architect, was commissioned to design ment. Houses were often designed with car- tects Clark and Crosby of Boston and area in the 18th who voted that important features include flared (or 1150-1152 Walnut Street was built the new train stations, only three of riage barns, and several noteworthy completed in 1893. Its eccentric century: the it be named Roman) Ionic corner pilasters, an in 1888 for Charles H. Burr, a physi- which remain today. As the Newton The polychrome slate roof is the most examples have survived along this tower (since removed), sweeping north-south Newton entablature at the eaves embellished cian. The melange of setbacks and Highlands station was completed important architectural feature. The street. bays, and eyebrow windows present a Dedham Road Highlands. with horizontal (or modillion) brack- projections incorporated into the after Richardson’s death, it is believed original clapboard wall fabric was marked contrast to the staid design of (now Centre This newly ets and dentils, windows capped with design of this residence and its richly to have been executed by the succeed- stuccoed during a turn of the century 6 The lots along the east side of the Congregational Church. In 1978 Street), and the accessible decorated entablatures, and an textured surface, typify the period’s ing firm, Shepley, Rutan, and modernization and scored to imitate Hartford Street were sold in June, the building was converted into 5 con- east-west village was espe- entrance portico. Seward W. Jones, passion for the picturesque. Coolidge. As is typical of stone. The window trim was simpli- 1874 at public auction—an especially dominiums, carefully maintaining its Sherborn Road cially appealing to President of the Newton Savings Richardson’s work, the Newton fied at this time by the removal of the effective method for a quick sale. exterior appearance. Text taken from Discover Historic Newton (now Clark, Beacon, Boston residents who Bank, was a longtime occupant of the 4 C treet Highlands station is constructed of cornice moldings. Local carpenter-builder Charles HighlandsRevised and updated by Newton Planning Curtis, Ramsdell, and hester S viewed it as a healthful, residence. rough-cut pink granite with detail Pottle constructed the Gothic villa at 9 The two houses at 44 and 74 Erie and Development Department in conjunction with Woodward Streets). Slowly, farms rustic environment in which to raise the Newton Historical Commission. July 2002. articulated in sandstone. 4 The Newton Highlands 68 Hartford Street (1876), one of the Avenue, and 93 Bowdoin Street are spread out along these highways and a family. Able to commute daily to 30 The Mansard style was applied to a Congregational Church was original- first residences to be built on this the work of Samuel A. Walker, a pro- The Newton Neighborhood Brochure Newton Highlands enjoyed a long agri- employment in the city, a broad cross variety of buildings in Newton 2 Herbert C. Moseley was the super- ly constructed as a wood frame build- street. Active during the 1870s and lific local builder-contractor. Of the Program has been financed in part with federal cultural period. As late as 1870, fewer section of working, middle, and upper Highlands, from towered residences funds from the National Park Service, U.S. vising architect of the Stevens ing between 1872 and 1876, and was 1880s, Pottle also built the residences 66 residences built between 1871 and than 20 families resided in the area. class families were attracted to the like that at 335 Lake Avenue, ca. Department of the Interior, through the Building at 5-19 Lincoln Street, built the neighborhood’s first church. at 82 Hyde Street (1885) and 284 1874 in Newton Highlands, Walker Massachusetts Historical Commission, Secretary of bustling village. 1873, to the commercial blocks on in 1888. This stylish Romanesque According to M. F. Sweetser in his Lake Avenue (1884). The design of built approximately 1/3. Several of the Commonwealth William Francis Galvin, Suburban development occurred in Lincoln Street. The Mansard cottage Chairman. However, the contents and opinions do structure, which replaced the wood King’s Handbook of Newton, “Here the Hartford Street residence was these will be discussed on this tour. Newton Corner and West Newton fol- The village contains many fine at 46 Columbus Street, ca. 1873, is a not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the frame Farnham’s Block, bears witness the people enjoy their harvest festivals adapted from pattern books that Like the Erie and Bowdoin Street Department of the Interior, or the Massachusetts lowing the construction of the Boston examples of Victorian architecture modest variation of the style. Its steep to the growth and prosperity of the and corn sociables, and other pleasant depict stone Gothic cottages. Since houses, his modest designs ranged Historical Commission. and Albany Railroad in the late 1830s. ranging from the Mansard and roof and shallow dormers create a full village. It has been extensively reunions, besides the usual religious stone carving was rather expensive, from the Italianate (44 and 74 Erie The U.S. Department of the Interior prohibits After the Charles River Railroad was Italianate of the 1870s, to the turn of second floor. The paired pendant altered by the removal of the tower’s observations of the old Puritan faith.” the structure’s wall surface is clad to Ave., both built in 1873) to the discrimination on the basis ofrace, color, national built through the Highlands in 1852, the century Colonial Revival. brackets, a fanciful innovation in the origin, age, gender or handicap in its federally pyramidal roof and a gable (east The present church was designed by look like stone. The “gingerbread” Mansard style (93 Bowdoin Street, real estate developers looked for oppor- Residences, churches, and public build- style developed by local builders, and assisted programs. If you believe you have been dis- face), the modernization of its store- George F. Newton and dedicated in detail at the gable peaks and the tall built 1874). Ornament is applied criminated against in any program, activity, or facil- tunities there, too. Portions of Lincoln, ings from several phases of Newton the cupola, are Italianate elements. fronts, and the bricking down of the September, 1906. The Gothic style corner tower, romanticized with pin- sparingly: simple brackets at the ity as described above, or if you desire further infor- Walnut, Floral, and Hyde Streets were Highlands’ development will be dis- mation, please write to: Office for Equal round arched windows for heat con- edifice is constructed of Weymouth nacled gables, make this a unique eaves, cornices over the windows, and laid out, but few lots sold. The railroad cussed on this tour. None of the houses 31 The residence at 40 Columbus Opportunity, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 servation. The photograph of Lincoln seam faced granite, which was quar- local adaptation. sidelighted entrances. Walker was C Street NW, Room 1324, Washington, DC 20240. had been built to serve the industries at on the tour are open to the public. Street, ca. 1873, contains many fea- Square reveals the architect’s original ried at Hingham, Mass. evidently influenced by the Stick style tures commonly found on Newton David B. Cohen, Mayor intention. The eaves are embellished 7 This slate milestone, dated 1810, when he clipped the gable ends of the Highlands’ Italianate houses. The with rows of stepped brick and 5 Hartford Street was among the first marks the 7th mile from Boston and is roof of 44 Erie Avenue. The hipped tooth-like dentils, while brick of the Highlands’ suburban streets. It the sole remnant of the small commu- gable (or jerkin) roof was a popular pilasters, spaced between the window was laid out parallel to the then nity of homes, taverns, and shops that Stick style motif, in vogue during the Photos courtesy of the Jackson Homestead N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON HIGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON HIGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON HIGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON H IGHLANDS N EWTON HIGHLANDS N EWT

mid 1870s. This house’s gable win- Palladian motif window and brackets, and bay windows. 23 The Sudbury Aqueduct was built et ornament at the eaves, and curved dow was originally round. A match- columned verandah were often incor- during the early 1870s to bring an and angular projections, express the ing carriage barn stands at the rear of porated into late century Shingle style 16 Complex massing with many wall and roof projections is a charac- additional supply of water to the rap- Queen Anne style at its height. The the property. adaptations. teristic of large Queen Anne style houses. This residence at 157 idly growing and perennially water verandah, with its round bandstand Lincoln Street, built between 1886 and 1888 for Charles H. Guild, a short Boston. Close to 16 miles in section, is rare in this neighborhood. 10 The Italianate style enjoyed 13 As with neighboring 160 Lincoln retired gentleman, achieves that effect through an asymmetrical length, the aqueduct transports water The entrance bay is framed by immense popularity in Newton Street, this residence at 170 Lincoln arrangement of gables, bays, and balconies. Also noteworthy is the from the Sudbury River through colonettes set in clusters and crowned Highlands during the 1870s. The Street, ca. 1896, was built on the site excess of scroll-sawn ornament on the balconies and entrance porch, Newton and Newton Highlands to by a pedimented gable containing a Tuscan Villa is a rare variation of the of an earlier house. This impressive a familiar Queen Anne extravagance. the Chestnut Hill Reservoir in painted floral and shield motif. The style and is characterized by its sym- mansion is virtually a catalog of Boston. Today, still a part of the unobtrusive placement of solar panels metrical organization, cubical shape, Colonial Revival ornament. The 17 The Queen Anne style house at 151-153 Lincoln Street, ca. Metropolitan District Comission on the south elevation indicates a and classically derived detail. This columned front porch, popular on less 1886-1888, was built for Samson Whittemore, a key figure in the water system, its grassy slopes are well-planned conversion to a newer unique residence at 122 Lincoln expensive versions of the style, is early suburban development of Newton Highlands. An enterprising enjoyed as a nature trail by joggers technology. Street, built between 1871-1873 is replaced on this residence by a semi- businessman, Whittemore and Charles W. Farnham purchased 38 and hikers alike. virtually a textbook example. Its for- circular portico with fluted acres of land in 1871, and laid out Bowdoin, Chester, Columbus, 27 The corner tower, a favorite motif in mal balance, established by the cen- Corinthian columns. The design of Forest, and Hillside Streets. While his partner chose to move on to 24 The use of several building materi- Queen Anne designs, is well repre- tral placement of the entrance portico, the central entrance, with its elliptical Sioux City, Kansas, Whittemore remained in the pleasant village and als to create richly varied exterior sur- sented in this neighborhood. Here, polygonal bays, and cupola, is typical- fan and leaded sidelights, is derived developed a lucrative real estate business. He and his wife, Anna, faces was a characteristic of Queen with its bellcast roof and contrasting ly Tuscan. In all other features: round from the Federal period. Willie H. were longtime occupants of this well-maintained house. Its complex Anne design. A good example is the wall fabric, it is an important compo- headed windows, elaborate Mansfield, a salesman, was the initial massing and contrasting wall fabric are typical Queen Anne themes. residence at 4 Chester Street, ca. nent in the design of the residence at scroll-sawn brackets, low hip roof, occupant. 1888, whose textural components 75 Lincoln Street, built between extended eaves, polygonal bays, and 18 Alexander Tyler, a bookkeeper who commuted to Boston for his include fieldstone, clapboard, and a 1886 and 1888. Special attention was the cupola itself, the Italianate influ- 14 This arresting Stick style residence employment, leased the towered Shingle style house at 135 Lincoln variety of cut shingles. While often paid to staircase windows, ence is strongly felt. George Stevens, at 173 Lincoln Street, ca. 1873, ranks Street, ca. 1886-1888. While the massing of this residence is more basically a sidehall plan, and the window on the the original owner, was a local grocer. among Newton Highlands’ finest complex and akin to Queen Anne forms, a side view shows a long the massing of this west elevation, with Victorian homes. The central feature stretch of unbroken wall surface. The curve of the tower and reveals structure appears both sunburst motif 11 This Italianate style residence at is a network of thin flat boards of an inset bay on the facade tend to emphasize the connection more complex, and diamond-nail- 138 Lincoln Street, ca. 1874, is applied over a clapboard wall, laid in between forms rather than to separate them by shadow and broken with the ubiqui- head pattern, is another of Samuel A. Walker’s a pattern of horizontals, diagonals, edges. tous corner no exception. designs. The double door entrance, and verticals that symbolize the build- tower and bay Henry Hodson, a long narrow windows capped with ing’s interior framing. In most 19 The popularity of the Queen Anne style in the face of new archi- and dormer pro- retired gentleman, cornice moldings, and deep raking Newton Highlands’ residences, this tectural fashion was responsible for several hybrid forms, among jections. Henry C. was the original Ol 12 d a 19 eaves with short gable returns are stickwork was confined to simple hor- them the picturesque villa with Classical or Colonial Revival detail. Robinson, a salesman nd N ca. occupant of this resi- ew Hyde School architectural features associated with izontal bands that crossed at each The residence at 111 Lincoln Street, built between 1886 and 1888, employed in Boston, was dence. the Italianate style. Like many floor level and at the tops and sills of is an eye-catching example. While its airy verandah, bay windows, the first occupant. Newton Highlands residences, this window frames. Samuel H. Dana, the and corner tower were standard Queen Anne motifs, details such as 28 Constructed in 1894 after a design one was updated as architectural pastor of the Congregational Church, pediments, pilasters, and entablatures were derived from classical 25 This modest Queen Anne cottage at by Hartwell and Richardson, and fashion changed. Its fancy verandah was the original owner of this prototypes. The verandah, a good illustration of this blending, has 24 Chester Street, ca. 1877, was named for James F. C. Hyde, who with turned posts, fret-like balustrade well-preserved residence. elaborately turned posts supporting a classical pedimented entrance leased by Everett E. Bird, a salesman, was Newton’s first mayor and active and gabled entrance bay detailed with bay detailed with an ornate foliate scroll and shield motif. The large, who later bought it. Its most striking in promoting the village’s suburban a rising sun motif are Queen Anne 15 The eclectic structure at 163 richly detailed carriage barn is also a noteworthy feature. feature is the picket motif detailing development, the Hyde School is a elements popular in the 1880s. Lincoln Street was built in 1872 for also suited to the 19th century counterpart of the tract house. The residences at the gable field. Although simply village landmark. Its rounded arch- Lawrence B. Norris, a mail contrac- 20 The City’s water records indicate that this residence was moved to its present 1 and 3 Bowdoin Street, both built in 1885, were inexpensive, sidehall designs designed, an attempt at a more com- ways and staircase windows indicate 12 Local carpenter Walter F. Heal tor. Originally Italianate in style, the site at 66 Forest Street in 1885. Such moves were fairly common events in dressed up with bay windows and belt bands of cut shingles. Joshua B. plicated mass is evident by the cross a strong Romanesque Revival influ- probably constructed the house at house has witnessed a major renova- Victorian neighborhoods. Thrifty local carpenter Henry J. Fewkes, who was a Emerson, a local carpenter, probably built both of these houses. gable and bays, a motif that is purely ence. As in the Queen Anne, the wall 160 Lincoln Street in 1898 on the site tion at which time the round corner long-time occupant of the cottage, probably handled the project. This Gothic cot- Queen Anne. surface is sectionalized, in this case of an earlier house. The informal tower and the spacious verandah, tage, a modest example of the Gothic Revival, appears to have been built in the 22 Symmetry was avoided in Queen Anne designs as illustrated by the numerous with brick, by a series of continuous gambrel roof was a popular feature of both Queen Anne elements, were early 1870s. The cross-gabled roof establishes a strong vertical emphasis in the projections, planes, and grouping of elements in the residence at 93 Hillside 26 The design of the house at 55 horizontal bands, and surface pattern the Shingle style. It was generally added. The original features included design. The tall, narrow paired sash windows, capped with segmental moldings Road, ca. 1886. Surface detail, also considered desirable, is exhibited here in the Chester Street, ca. 1892, is exuber- and texture are emphasized. The old carried down to the second floor and the ornamental central gable with and decorated with jig-sawn ornament, reinforce this theme. use of clapboards, patterned shingles, and belt coursing. The semi-circular, ant. The rich variety of surface tex- High School, the Bigelow School, cross-gabled, as this adaptation is. oculus window, deep raking eaves columned entrance porch was probably added in the 1890s when the Colonial ture and pattern, intricately cut wood Mason School, and Horace Mann Colonial Revival elements such as the embellished with paired pendant 21 The Queen Anne style, commonly associated with large, expensive designs, was Revival style came into vogue. shingles, molded belt coursing, brack- School, the latter of which is a close