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Gen. Gideon Foster House

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Location
  
Peabody, Massachusetts

NRHP Reference #
  
76000287

Opened
  
1810

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Built
  
1810

Designated CP
  
September 12, 1985

Area
  
2,024 m²

Added to NRHP
  
23 June 1976

Gen. Gideon Foster House

Part of
  
Washington Street Historic District (#85002380)

Similar
  
Peabody Historical Fire Muse, George Peabody House M, Nathaniel Felton Houses, Peabody Institute Library, John Balch House

The Gen. Gideon Foster House is a historic house at 35 Washington Street in Peabody, Massachusetts. The two story Federal style wood frame house was built in the early 1800s at a location on Main Street. The house was bought in 1815 by Gideon Foster, a local veteran of the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. The house was later owned by Eben Sutton, a local textile manufacturer, who sold the house so that it could be moved to make way for a larger house on the same lot.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and included in the Washington Street Historic District in 1985. It is the current home of the Peabody Historical Society, which acquired the property in 1916.

References

Gen. Gideon Foster House Wikipedia