Russell House | |
Coordinates: | 42.6181°N -71.1206°W |
Built: | 1805 |
Architecture: | Federal |
Added: | June 10, 1982 |
Mpsub: | Town of Andover MRA |
Refnum: | 82004808 |
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 .[1] 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.[2] 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,[3] and his subsequent name for his landholding which he called 'Scotland farm.'[4]