Built 1730 (1730) Opened 1730 Architectural style American Colonial | NRHP Reference # 90000179 Area 9,300 m² Added to NRHP 9 March 1990 | |
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Location 128 Hollis St., Sherborn, Massachusetts MPS First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR | ||
The Addington Gardner House is a historic First Period house at 128 Hollis Street in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Its oldest portions dating to about 1730, it is one of the community's oldest surviving buildings, and a good example of transitional First-Second Period style. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
Description and history
The Addington Gardner House stands in a rural residential area of southwestern Sherborn, at the northeast corner of Hollis Street and Western Avenue. It is a 2-12 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a corniced entablature. Windows are simply framed, with the second-floor windows butting against the eave. A single story ell, added c. 1800 projects from the rear, connecting the house to a later carriage house. The interior timbers show evidence of 18th-century construction methods consistent with a c. 1730 construction date. Beams are exposed in the front chambers of the main block, and the left front chamber has a fireplace surround with early Second Period carving.
The oldest portions of this house (possibly just the front rooms) were built c. 1730 by Addington Gardner. The house is a classic five-bay 2-1/2 story timber frame structure, with a large central chimney. The house remained in the Gardner family until 1911, when it was sold to a local farmer and politician.