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The 95-acre (38 ha) district extends along Main Street from Huguenot Street in the south to Front Street in the north. Its oldest buildings are residential houses built in the late 19th century, while most of the properties were built in the 19th century, with Greek Revival architecture predominating.
The Cooper–Frost–Austin House was originally built as a single room structure with a chimney bay, and integral lean-to. [21] This two-and-one half story structure was later expanded with the addition of west rooms and lean-to behind them sometime after 1718. [21] It was around this time period that a one-story porch was also added.
Robbins House—Built circa 1790–1800; home of Caesar Robbins, a formerly enslaved African-American and Revolutionary War veteran. In 1870–71, the house was moved to Bedford Street, near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. In 2011 it was moved to its present site at 320 Monument Street, across from the Old North Bridge and the Old Manse. Lexington
Present day Oxford and the areas surrounding it were inhabited for thousands of years before European colonization.Although archaeological sites exist in Central Massachusetts dating back to the Paleoindian period (12,000-9000 years before present) there are much more abundant archaeological remains starting in the period from 6500 to 3000 years before present, including an arrowhead ...
T. E. Lawrence (known as Lawrence of Arabia) grew up in Polstead Road, North Oxford. Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate, was an enthusiast about North Oxford and wrote poems mentioning the area, such as May-Day Song for North Oxford: Belbroughton Road is bonny, and pinkly bursts the spray Of prunus and forsythia across the public way,
On August 1 of the year, Mr. Houghton, and his daughter, Mary decided to go to Bennington, Vermont for a pleasure drive. Mrs. Houghton decided to stay home. They were accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. Robert Hutton of New York. Mrs. Hutton (nee. Sybil Cady) was a childhood friend of Mary's and a daughter of the North Adams shoe manufacturer WG Cady.
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The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1] Essex County, of which Lawrence is a part, is the location of 461 properties and districts listed on the National Register. Lawrence itself is the location of 24 of these properties ...