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NEWTON Highlands Railroad Station, Which Tals 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.
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