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1897 Washington St., Auburndale; 18 Station Ave., Newton Highlands; 70 and 50 Union St., Newton Centre 42°19′21″N 71°12′20″W / 42.322461°N 71.20563°W / 42.322461; -71.20563 ( Woodland, Newton Highlands, and Newton Centre Railroad Stations, and Baggage and Express
The oldest houses in the district are on Pleasant Street, and date to the 1850s. The street has a series of well-preserved Carpenter Gothic houses, with fanciful scroll-sawn vergeboard decoration in the gables, dormers, and porches. Another of the older houses in the district is the c. 1858 Bracketed Italianate house at 21 Lake Avenue.
This 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame house was built in 1839 for William Curtis, and is an important local example of transitional Federal-Greek Revival styling. It has Federal massing, with a five bay front facade and four side chimneys, but it has Greek Revival corner pilasters, and a front entry sheltered by a Doric porch.
The Newton Highlands Historic District encompasses the historic heart of the village of Newton Highlands in Newton, Massachusetts.When it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, the district extended along Lincoln Street from Woodward to Hartford Streets, and included blocks of Bowdoin, Erie and Hartford Streets south of Lincoln Street. [2]
The Union Street Historic District is a historic district on Union Street between Langley Road and Herrick Road, and at 17–31 Herrick Road in Newton, Massachusetts. It encompasses the city's only significant cluster of 19th century commercial buildings. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]
A downtown Lexington bar building has changed hands again. And the new owner has lots of plans for the high-profile location. The historic building at 249 W. Short St., which is across the street ...
Curve Street, and adjacent areas that were razed to make way for the adjacent Massachusetts Turnpike, has been a center of Newton's African-American community since about 1870, and is the only such area to retain any sort of historic integrity in the city. The focus of the neighborhood became the Myrtle Baptist Church, a wood-frame structure ...
The Myrtle Baptist Church at 21 Curve Street has been a center for a thriving African-American community since the 1870s. [8] St. Bernard's Church and Rectory at 1515-29 Washington Street, a Catholic church, is a Newton City Landmark. [5] First Unitarian Church (1905). Photo by John Borchard. Railroad Hotel (1831). Photo by John Borchard.