S. Curtis Smith House Explained

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".

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: NRHP nomination for S. Curtis Smith House. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2014-04-21.