Addington Gardner House

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Addington Gardner House
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Addington Gardner House is located in Massachusetts
Addington Gardner House
Location128 Hollis St.,
Sherborn, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°12′58″N 71°23′55″W / 42.21611°N 71.39861°W / 42.21611; -71.39861Coordinates: 42°12′58″N 71°23′55″W / 42.21611°N 71.39861°W / 42.21611; -71.39861
Area2.3 acres (0.93 ha)
Built1730 (1730)
Architectural styleColonial
MPSFirst Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR
NRHP reference No.90000179[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 9, 1990

The Addington Gardner House is a historic First Period house 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.[1]

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.[2]

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.[2]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "NRHP nomination for Addington Gardner House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
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