Brown Square House

The Brown Square House, now the Garrison Inn, is a historic pair of rowhouses at 11 Brown Square in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Built in 1809-10, they form the largest surviving brick building from the Federal period in the city. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975,[1] and included in the Newburyport Historic District in 1984.[2]

Brown Square House
Brown Square House
Location11 Brown Sq., Newburyport, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°48′40″N 70°52′27″W
Built1809 (1809)
ArchitectMoses Brown
Architectural styleFederal
Part ofNewburyport Historic District (ID84002411)
NRHP reference No.75000284[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 7, 1975
Designated CPAugust 2, 1984

Description and history

Brown Square is a narrow rectangular park at the northern end of a city block on the west side of Newburyport's downtown, bounded by Titcomb, Pleasant, and Green Streets on the west, north, and south, and by Brown Square on the south. The Brown Square House occupies the western end of the block facing the park to the north. It consists of a pair of similar brick rowhouses, each four stories in height. It is covered by a hip roof with a dentillated cornice. The brick is laid in Flemish bond. Each unit is four bays wide, with the entrances at ground level in the innermost bays, set in arched openings with flanking sidelights and fanlights above. Windows are set in rectangular openings with brownstone sills and splayed lintels.[2]

The two rowhouses were built in 1809 and 1810 by Moses Brown, a Newburyport landowner, shipbuilder, and shipping merchant. Brown, who had given the Brown Square park to the city, had planned to build a much longer row, but suffered financial reverses and was unable to build more than the pair. Sometime before 1849 the building was adapted for use as a boarding house. In 1922 it was turned into a hotel, named in honor of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, a statue of whom graces the square. That hotel closed in 1948,[2] but the building has since been rehabilitated and reopened under the same name.

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See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for Brown Square House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-19.
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