John Buckingham House

The John Buckingham House is a historic house at 33–35 Waban Street in the Newton Corner village of Newton, Massachusetts. Built about 1864, it is a good local example of Second Empire architecture, typical of built at that time for upper middle class commuters to Boston. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

John Buckingham House
Location33–35 Waban St., Newton, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°21′27″N 71°11′27″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1864 (1864)
Architectural styleSecond Empire, Mansard
MPSNewton MRA
NRHP reference No.86001778[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 04, 1986

Description and history

The John Buckingham House stands in a densely built residential area northwest of the center of Newton Corner, on the north side of Waban Street opposite Hovey Street. Its lot is fronted by a low stone retaining wall, which continues to a posted drive on the adjacent property, where the house's original carriage house is located. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a bell-cast mansard roof with fish-scale slate shingles and segmented-arch dormers. The cornice is denticulated, and there are single-story projecting bay windows on both sides, topped by bracketed roofs. A single-story porch extends across the front, supported by bracketed chamfered square posts; a similar porch is set on the right side near the rear.[2]

The neighborhood was laid out sometime after the railroad arrived at Newton Corner in 1844, and may have been designed by landscape architect Alexander Wadsworth. This house is estimated to have been built c. 1864, and was bought in 1866 by John Buckingham, pastor of the Chestnut Hill Unitarian Church. It remained in his family until the 1970s. The Second Empire style house is typical of commuter-oriented housing built in Newton Corner after the American Civil War, and is notable for the surviving carriage house.[2]

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See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "NRHP nomination for John Buckingham House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-09.
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