Curtis S. Smith House | |
Location: | 56 Fairmont Ave., Newton, Massachusetts |
Coordinates: | 42.3494°N -71.1908°W |
Built: | 1883 |
Architecture: | Queen Anne |
Added: | September 04, 1986 |
Mpsub: | Newton MRA |
Refnum: | 86001881 |
The S. Curtis Smith House is a historic house at 56 Fairmont Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts. The -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.[1]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as the "Curtis S. Smith House".