Russell House (Andover, Massachusetts)

	Russell House
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	28 Rocky Hill Road,; Andover, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°37′5″N 71°7′14″W / 42.61806°N 71.12056°WCoordinates: 42°37′5″N 71°7′14″W / 42.61806°N 71.12056°W
Built	1805
Architectural style	Federal
MPS	Town of Andover MRA
NRHP reference No.	82004808
Added to NRHP	June 10, 1982

The Russell House is a historic house in Andover, Massachusetts.

The weatherboarded Federal-style home was built in 1805. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The farm encompasses some 11 acres (4.5 ha).^[2] The house and farm were owned by Deacon Joseph Russell, a descendant of Robert Russell, a Scotsman, who emigrated to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century and was the first person buried in Andover's newly created South Parish 'Burying-Yard,' as it was called, in 1710 at age 80.^[3] Russell's descendants intermarried with the Holt, Abbott, Marshall, Chandler, Dane and other early Andover settler families. The 'Scotland District' name for that section of Andover derives from Robert Russell's Scottish birthplace,^[4] and his subsequent name for his landholding which he called 'Scotland farm.'^[5]

References[]

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ "National Register of Historic Places, Essex County, Massachusetts".
^ Sarah Loring Bailey (1880). Historical Sketches of Andover. Houghton, Mifflin. p. 512. Retrieved 2010-01-02. robert russell scotland andover.
^ Sarah Loring Bailey (1880). Historical Sketches of Andover. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston. p. 119. Retrieved 2010-01-02. historical sketches of andover russell bailey.
^ William Richard Cutter; William Frederick Adams (1910). Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. IV. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York. Retrieved 2010-01-02.

Sources[]

Burke's American Families with British Ancestry: The Lineages of 1,600 Families of British Origin Now Resident in the United States of America, Bernard Burke, Republished by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975, ISBN 0-8063-0662-9