Built 1883 NRHP Reference # 86001881 Added to NRHP 4 September 1986 | MPS Newton MRA Opened 1883 | |
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Architectural style Queen Anne style architecture Similar United Parish of Auburndale, Beaver Brook Reservation, Jackson Homestead, Brae Burn Country Club, Crystal Lake | ||
The S. Curtis Smith House is a historic house at 56 Fairmont Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built c. 1883, and is one of Newton's finest Queen Anne Victorian houses. It exhibits a full range of that style's features, including asymmetrical massing with numerous and varied gables, a tower with an octagonal arched roof, bands of different types of shingling, and an ornately decorated front portico. The house was built for S. Curtis Smith, a schoolteacher.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as the "Curtis S. Smith House".
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