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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
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.
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.
West Newton is also served by express buses 505, 553, 554 that provide service to Boston and Waltham. West Newton also has easy access to the Massachusetts Turnpike and Route 128 (Massachusetts)/I-95. The Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90) runs through West Newton. Routes 30 and 16 also pass through the West Newton.
(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.
The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, built in 1940, is an historic Christian Science church building located at 391 Walnut Street on the corner of Otis Street in the village of Newtonville, in Newton, Massachusetts. It was designed in the redbrick Colonial Revival style by Densmore, LeClear and Robbins, architects.