Adams Claflin House

The Adams Claflin House is a historic house at 156 Grant Avenue in the village of Newton Centre in Newton, Massachusetts. It is a large 2-1/2 story cross-gable wood frame structure, built in the Shingle style to a design by Samuel Brown for Adams Davenport Claflin.[2] Claflin was the son of Massachusetts Governor and Newtonville resident William Claflin, and was a major landowner in Newtonville as well as president of the Boston and Suburban Electric Company. Claflin was a major developer of the streetcar system that served Newton. Architecturally, the house shows vestiges of the Queen Anne style, with its asymmetrical massing and wealth of projections and gables, as well as elements of the Colonial Revival, exemplified by a Palladian window, and by the pedimented front porch. The house is one of several designed by Brown for the Claflin family.[3]

Adams Claflin House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	156 Grant Ave., Newton, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°20′3″N 71°11′16″W
Built	1890
Architect	Brown, Samuel
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Shingle Style
MPS	Newton MRA
NRHP reference No.	86001783[1]
Added to NRHP	September 04, 1986

On September 4, 1986, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton, Massachusetts

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. Marquis, Albert Nelson, Who's Who in New England, vol. 2, p. 237
3. "NRHP nomination for Adams Claflin House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-06-02.