| Stephen Barker House | |
| Location: | Methuen, Massachusetts |
| Coordinates: | 42.7067°N -71.1992°W |
| Built: | 1839 |
| Architecture: | Greek Revival |
| Added: | January 20, 1984 |
| Mpsub: | Methuen MRA |
| Refnum: | 84002307 |
Stephen Barker House is a historic house at 165 Haverhill Street in Methuen, Massachusetts.
Built in 1839, it is one of several handsome houses built at the periphery of the Methuen settlement in the mid-19th Century, and remains a well conserved "country Residence". Reportedly, surveyor Stephen Barker built "Woodland Cottage" in imitation of antebellum mansions he had seen in the South.[1]
Barker, from one of Methuen's original families, had gone to seek his fortune in Tennessee and sent home enough money to build a house. The old farm house was moved and on its site was built this imitation of a Southern mansion. The details of the house, such as the entrance, the Doric columns and frieze board above, classify it as Greek Revival. The builder freely adapted traditional elements: rows of dormers, triangular windows in the gable end, and railing above the porch mimicking gingerbread fretwork.[2]
It was added to the National Historic Register in 1984.