Baxter–King House Explained

Baxter–King House
Nrhp Type:nrhp
Location:36 Heritage Road Quincy, Massachusetts
Coordinates:42.2532°N -71.0147°W
Built:1860
Architecture:Italianate
Added:November 13, 1989
Refnum:89001953

The Baxter–King House is a historic house at 36 Heritage Road in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in the 1860s, and is one of the city's finest Italianate houses. The L-shaped house dominated by a three-story square tower with a shallow hip roof that has a bracketed and modillioned eave. An elaborately decorated entry projects from the tower. Windows are varied in shape, including round-arch windows with drip moulding, and single and doubled sash windows. The house was built by James Baxter Jr., whose daughter Helen married Theophilus King. King owned a leather business in Boston and was president of the Granite Trust Company.[1]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: NRHP nomination for Baxter–King House. https://archive.today/20140528063007/http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=QUI.84. live. May 28, 2014. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2014-05-27.