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The Edmund Dwight House is a historic house at 5 Cambridge Street in Winchester, Massachusetts, straddling the town line with Arlington. It was built in 1858 in an Italianate style . It was one of the first and grandest country houses built in Winchester at a time when Boston businessmen were seeking to build such houses.
Listed as demolished; [5] house has actually been moved a short distance to a new foundation. 11: DeRochmont House: DeRochmont House: July 5, 1989 : 2–4 Rangeley Rd. 12: Dike-Orne House: Dike-Orne House: July 5, 1989 : 257 Forest St.
The John Mason House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts. This two-story wood-frame house was built sometime in the 1860s, probably for Joshua Stone, who sold it to John Mason sometime before 1875. Mason was one of the first Boston businessmen to establish a suburban residence in Winchester. The house has a variety of high-style ...
The Charles Russell House is a historic house at 993 Main Street in Winchester, Massachusetts. The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame house was built by Charles Russell in 1841, on a site that was one of the first settled in what is now Winchester. The five-bay facade has a center entry that is framed by sidelight and transom windows, and is ...
The area that is now Winchester was first settled beginning in the 1640s, and was known as South Woburn. What is now the town center began as the site of a grist mill and bridge on the Aberjona River. The community remained largely agrarian until the Boston and Lowell Railroad was built through the area in 1835. This spurred immediate growth ...
Edward Convers was born January 20, 1590. After his first wife died, he married Sarah Parker in 1614. He and his family arrived in Salem, Massachusetts, with the Winthrop Fleet on June 12, 1630, in the early stages of the Great Migration. [4] He also founded the First Church of Charlestown, and established the first ferry from Charlestown to ...
The Sharon House is a historic house in Winchester, Massachusetts.The 2.5-story wood-frame house was built c. 1835, and has basic Greek Revival styling. It is most notable as including a rare surviving remnant of the shoe manufacturing industry, which was a cottage industry in the area in the first half of the 19th century.