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House at 170 Otis Street: House at 170 Otis Street: September 4, 1986 : 170 Otis St. West Newton: 77: House at 173–175 Ward Street: House at 173–175 Ward Street: September 4, 1986 : 173–175 Ward St.
The West Newton Hill NR Historic District is a residential National Register historic district in the village of West Newton, in the city of Newton, Massachusetts in the United States. It is composed of a cohesive collection of spacious houses built in the second half of the 19th century, representing the development of the West Newton area as ...
House at 31 Woodbine Street; House at 41 Middlesex Road; House at 47 Sargent Street; House at 60 William Street; House at 68 Maple Street; House at 81–83 Gardner Street; House at 102 Staniford Street; House at 107 Waban Hill Road; House at 115–117 Jewett Street; House at 152 Suffolk Road; House at 170 Otis Street; House at 173–175 Ward Street
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.It is roughly 8 miles (13 km) west of downtown Boston, and comprises a patchwork of thirteen villages.. The city borders Boston to the northeast and southeast (via the neighborhoods of Brighton and West Roxbury), Brookline to the east, Watertown and Waltham to the north, and Weston, Wellesley, and Needham to the we
The House at 170 Otis Street in Newton, Massachusetts is a rare local work of the nationally known Boston architect Hammatt Billings.The two story Second Empire house was built in 1870–71 for Charles Ellis and Emma Claflin Ellis, the daughter of William Claflin, then Governor of Massachusetts, whose own home (no longer extant) was in Newtonville.
There are several civic buildings in West Newton Square. They include the Newton Police Department and the local courthouse, both located on Washington Street, as well as the Chinese Community Center on Elm Street. The square once had a branch of the Newton Free Library as well as the Davis Elementary School on Waltham Street.
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 Commonwealth Avenue Street Railway connected with the Boston Elevated Railway streetcars near the Newton-Boston boundary at Boston College). It differs from those roads, in that the terrain is much hillier, requiring the road to wind in a more picturesque manner, and in the city's aversion to multiunit apartment blocks.