Built 1897 NRHP Reference # 86001880 Added to NRHP 4 September 1986 | MPS Newton MRA Opened 1897 | |
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Location 57 Hunnewell Ave., Newton, Massachusetts Architectural styles Colonial Revival architecture, American Queen Anne style Similar United Parish of Auburndale, Beaver Brook Reservation, Jackson Homestead, Brae Burn Country Club, Crystal Lake | ||
The Simpson House is a historic house at 57 Hunnewell Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built in the late 1890s, and is an excellent local example of a well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian with some Colonial Revival features. It has roughly rectangular massing, but is visually diverse, with a number of gables and projections. A single story porch across the front extends over the drive to form a porte cochere, and rests on fieldstone piers with Tuscan columns. The stairs to the entry are called out by a triangular pediment, above which is a Palladian window with flanking columns. Joseph Simpson, its first owner, was a principal in the Simpson Brothers paving company.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.