<p>The Union Street Historic District is a historic district on Union Street between Langley Road and Herrick Road, and at 17–31 Herrick Road in Newton, Massachusetts. It encompasses the city&#39;s only significant cluster of 19th century commercial buildings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Development in the Newton Centre area did not begin until the arrival of the railroad in the late 1880s, and the construction in 1890 of the railroad station that served the village. The district includes five buildings: three commercial buildings that line the north side of Union Street, the railroad station, and an apartment block on Herrick Street.</p><br>
<p>The Newton Centre Station (no longer formally affiliated with the railroad line, which now serves the MBTA Green Line D branch) was designed by H. H. Richardson and completed after his death by his successor firm, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. It has typical Richardsonian Romanesque styling, with brownstone and granite construction, and an overhanging slate roof with arched eyebrow dormer windows. The station and an adjacent freight and baggage house were listed on the National Register as part of a district of surviving Richardson railroad stations in Newton; the freight building was mostly demolished in 1985, with parts of the original building being incorporated into new construction on the site, and original landscaping by the Olmsted Brothers also does not survive.</p><br>
<p>The Bray building at 93–105 is the other major building on Union Street. This 2-1/2 story Classical Revival building is built out of buff-colored brick, with a copper-clad hip roof, and a modillioned cornice. Arched windows in the attic are also lined with copper. It was built in 1893 for Mellen Bray, who also built the apartment block at 17–31 Herrick Street.</p><br>
<p>The Union building at 65–73 Union Street was built in 1896. Georgian Revival in style, it has seven bays with storefronts on the ground level, and an entranceway recessed behind an arch flanked by brick pilasters. It also has a modillioned cornice, with dentil moulding.</p><br>
<p>The Loren Towle Estate is a historic estate at 785 Centre Street in Newton, Massachusetts, USA.</p><br>
<p>The estate&#39;s construction began in 1920 for real estate executive Loren D. Towle as a 35-room, Gothic-style English Revival mansion with formal gardens, terraces, tennis courts, and garage. Design of the estate buildings was by Arthur W. Bowditch, and landscaping design was provided by the Olmsted Brothers firm. Towle died in 1924, before the mansion was completed. In December 1925 it became home to the Newton Country Day School, and in 1990 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Thayer House is a historic house at 17 Channing Street in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1860, and is an unusual combination of Carpenter Gothic and Second Empire styling. The front facade has three steeply-pitched gables clad in flushboarding, and the gable windows are framed in scroll-sawn decorations. The house corners have rounded corner pilasters, and the main entrance is framed by Ionic columns and topped by a low-pitch gable with more scroll-sawn woodwork. A mansard-roofed addition extends from the rear of the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By 1869, the neighborhood around Channing Street was developed into house lots on land belonging to Phineas A Johnson, a cabinetmaker. Local Newton resident, developer, and businessman Joseph N. Bacon and Watertown resident Luke Forbes both bought and subdivided Johnson&#39;s land creating the neighborhood located on and around Channing Street. Until 1878, when it was incorporated as a city street, Channing Street was known as Linden Street and the neighborhood was built to serve bustling Newton Corner with its convenient rail transportation to Boston. With the exception of 34 Channing Street, an early 20th-century Colonial Revival building, the historic homes along Channing Street were all built within roughly a ten-year period between 1860 and 1870.</p><br>
<p>Historically, the structure is important for its contribution to the architectural history of Newton as a locally distinctive combination of historic architectural styles (Gothic Revival and Second Empire), as the residence of local merchant Stephen O. Thayer, and as a contributing element in the 19th century character of Channing Street. The property is also historically associated with the development of Newton Corner during the late 19th century as a desirable urban village residence in proximity to railroad transportation to Boston.</p><br>
<p>The Celia Thaxter House is an historic house at 524 California Street in the village of Newtonville in Newton, Massachusetts. The Italianate house was built c. 1856 as the home of Levi Lincoln Thaxter and American poet and author Celia Thaxter. The Thaxters lived here until 1880 when she moved to Kittery Point, Maine. It was in the Newtonville house that Celia Thaxter wrote her early poetry, and where the Thaxters played host to high-profile members of Boston&#39;s literary community.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Sumner and Gibbs Streets Historic District is a residential historic district encompassing a cohesive collection of houses representing styles common in the Newton Centre area of Newton, Massachusetts during its first period of growth. It includes houses along Sumner Street, between Cotswold Terrace and Willow Street, and the adjacent house at 184 Gibbs Street. The houses were built between 1865 and 1899, and are predominantly in the Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styles. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Sumner Street is a residential street running north-south between Willow and Ward Streets in central Newton, just north of the main village of Newton Centre, one of 11 villages in Newton. This district encompasses roughly the southern third of the street, as well as a single house west of Sumner on Gibbs Street, which bisects the district. Development of this area was spurred by the improvement of rail service in Newton brought by the introduction of the Circuit Railroad in 1886, and further intensified by the construction of Commonwealth Avenue, crosses Sumner Street north of the district.</p><br>
<p>The district contains sixteen houses built between 1865 and 1899. The oldest house in the district is 184 Gibbs Street, a high-quality example Second Empire architecture. 166 Sumner Street is an Italianate house built in 1870. Six houses are Queen Anne in style, the most of any individual style. There are three Colonial Revival houses, and one Shingle style house with Colonial Revival features. There is one Georgian Revival house, and two that are Second Empire (the 1867 house at 139 Sumner Street joining 184 Gibbs Street in this category.)</p><br>
<p>Strong&#39;s Block is a historic commercial building at 1637–1651 Beacon Street in the center of Waban Village, in the city of Newton, Massachusetts. Built in 1896, this -story brick Flemish Revival structure is one of a small number of surviving 19th century commercial blocks in the city. The building was designed by Waban resident Lewis H. Bacon for William Strong, another local resident, who sought to capitalize on the construction of the nearby Circuit Railroad .</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Edward B. Stratton House is a historic house at 25 Kenmore Street in Newton, Massachusetts. It is a two-story stucco-clad structure, with a dormered hip roof. It has a Colonial Revival entrance with fluted pilasters supporting a decorated entablature and broken-gabled pediment. To either side of the entrance, single-story wings project forward, creating an entrance court; the windows of the wings have arched windows. The house was designed by noted regional architect Edward B. Stratton and built in 1912 as his family residence. The building features an eclectic mix of Colonial Revival and Craftsman styling.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph L. Stone House is a historic house and carriage barn at 77 and 85 Temple Street in Newton, Massachusetts. The -story house, now at 77 Temple Street, has a brick first floor and wood frame upper floors, with a roughly three-part facade. On the left is a projecting section with a gabled roof, and on the right is a rounded two story tower section topped with an octagonal roof. In between is a recessed porch on the second floor, with a projecting gabled dormer above. The walls are sheathed in decorative shingle work, and the porch and porte-cochere are elaborately decorated. The carriage barn, now converted to a residence at 85 Temple, is of similar styling. The house and carriage barn were built in 1881 by Joseph L. Stone, a banker.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Frank H. Stewart House is a historic house at 41 Montvale Road in Newton, Massachusetts. The -story stucco-clad house was built in 1909 for Frank H. Stewart, a lawyer. It is located in an Olmsted-designed subdivision, and is one Newton&#39;s finest large Classical Revival houses. It has a green tile hipped roof with exposed rafter ends, pierced by three hip-roofed dormers. The main facade has a front porch that merges into two flanking single-story projecting bays, all also topped by a green tile roof. There are flanking side sections fronted by porches.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Old Capitol Building is a building in Olympia, Washington. Designed by Willis A. Ritchie, it was built from 1890 to 1892 as the Thurston County Courthouse, and served from 1905 until 1928 as the state capitol, seat of the legislature of Washington; in 1928 the legislature moved to the current Capitol Building. It is now the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.</p><br>
<p>The building has survived several disasters, after each of which it has been repaired. A fire in 1928 resulted in the loss of a central tower. After the 1949 Olympia earthquake, the building was evacuated and suffered severe damage to its masonry exterior that had to be repaired over the following few months at a cost of $1.1 million. 10 of the 12 towers were lost in the earthquake, along with a rotunda, the House chamber, and several galleries in the East Wing.</p><br>
<p>The John Winthrop Jr. Iron Furnace Site is a historic archaeological site at 61 Crescent Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. The site is called Braintree Furnace in some texts; the West Quincy location at the time of operation was in a part of Braintree, Massachusetts, that later became Quincy. Its importance lies in the fact that it was the first iron blast furnace established in what would become the United States. Furnace Brook, a stream which begins on the eastern slopes of the Blue Hills and meanders for about four miles from southwest to northeast through the middle of Quincy toward Quincy Bay, was named for the works site.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the 17th century, iron was an used to manufacture a number of indispensable goods, including nails, horseshoes, cookware, tools, and weapons. The production of iron required a complex manufacturing process, which was not available during the early years of the North American colonization. Thus, all of the colonists iron goods had to be imported. As it took at least two months to sail to the nearest foundry, iron goods were very expensive.</p><br>
<p>John Winthrop the Younger wanted to establish an iron works in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He believed that because the colonies had a cheap and abundant supply of raw materials, an iron works in Massachusetts could produce goods that could be sold profitably in the New England and Chesapeake Colonies as well as in England. In 1639, Winthrop sailed to England to get the capital he needed to fund the project. Winthrop selected Braintree as the location of the first iron furnace. Construction began in 1644 and was completed in 1645. On October 15, 1645, Winthrop secured the Undertakers an exemption from taxes and a 21-year monopoly on iron production from the Massachusetts General Court.</p><br>
<p>The Braintree iron furnace, however, was unsuccessful due to a lack of iron ore in the area and an inadequate supply of water to power the machinery. The furnace shut down in 1647, not long after the Saugus Iron Works was completed.</p><br>
<p>Several workers from the Braintree Furnace would go on to establish iron works in other locations. In the 1650s, James Leonard would help establish the Taunton Iron Works on the Two Mile River in Taunton, Massachusetts. His brother Henry Leonard would return to Saugus for a while before establishing a new works at Rowley in 1668. He would later move to New Jersey with his sons where several other works were built. Ralph Russell, another ironmaster from Braintree moved to Dartmouth where he set up a forge at what became known as Russells Mills, on the Paskamanset River.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Winfield House was a historic house at 853 Hancock Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built c. 1880, it was a -story wood-frame structure with exuberant Queen Anne styling. It was built by John Chamberlin, a traveling hardware salesman. The house was particularly distinctive for its onion-domed tower near the center of the structure, an unusual placement and topping for such a tower. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Winfield House served as a restaurant for 50 years. The house was demolished in 1998 by its then owners, Eastern Nazarene College, to make way for a campus expansion; all that is left now is stairs leading up to an empty house lot and the elm tree. The carriage house and a portion of the main house floating staircase were moved to a private residence in Stoughton, MA.</p><br>
<p>The Charles E. White House is a historic house at 101 Billings Road in Quincy, Massachusetts. This -story wood-frame house was built c. 1905 by Charles White, a traveling salesman. It is a well-preserved local example of late Shingle styling, with a cross-gable roof configuration and a side-hall entry plan. It has a number of projecting bay windows, and a gable window set in a curved recess. Its original shingling has been either covered or replaced by modern siding .</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Seth Spear Homestead is a historic house at 47-49 Spear Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1850 by either Thomas Drake or Seth Spear, who purchased Drake&#39;s property. Spear was one of the largest landowners in the immediate area. The house is a fairly typical Greek Revival structure, although it has had a large ell added to the rear , and its front portico dates to the 1890s. It now has 5 units rented out.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The A. C. Smith & Co. Gas Station is a historic gas station at 117 Beale Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is a single-story brick, with a front facade divided into three vehicle bays on the left and an office on the right, with a pedestrian entrance to the work area in between. A low-pitch gable at the center acts a kind of parapet, and there are round decorative panels on the front facade. The building was constructed in 1926, and is a little-altered example of an early functional automotive filling and service station. Its original brickwork remains in good condition, and its service bays are distinctively illuminated in part by original skylights.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The George A. Sidelinger House is a historic house at 19 Avon Way in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1904 by George Sidelinger, a local politician. It is one of a small number of well-preserved Shingle style houses on President&#39;s Hill. Its three-bay gabled facade has a diamond paned window in a curved recess near the gable peak, and a small Palladian window below. Its porch wraps around to the side, and is supported by clusters of Doric columns, set on piers with a low balustrade between.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Alfred H. Richards House is a historic house located at 354 Highland Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The two-story wood-framed house was built in 1923 for Alfred Richards, a bank executive. It is one of the last house built in the Wollaston Heights area, which had been mostly built out in the earlier decades of the 20th century. Designed by William Chapman, it has a five-bay main facade with three gabled dormers above, each with a round-arch window. The eave is decorated with dentil moulding and modillions.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Timothy Reed House is a historic house at 284 Adams Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. This two-story wood-frame house was built in the 1870s by Timothy Reed, a Boston-based leather merchant. It is the city&#39;s finest Stick style house, with bargeboard gable decoration, and alternating sections of horizontal and vertical siding, set off by trim bands. Its gable ends are truncated, the eaves are lined with brackets, and the front porch has a low turned balustrade and posts with large brackets.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Jonathan Dexter Record House is a historic house at 39-41 Grandview Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts. This large two-family house was probably built in the 1890s, and is one of the largest and finest Queen Anne houses on Wollaston Hill. It has classic elements of the style, including a three-story tower with conical roof, asymmetrical massing, and a wealth of varying gables and windows. Jonathan D. Record, for whom it was built, was a Boston dry plates manufacturer.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Quincy Water Company Pumping Station was a historic pumping station at 106 Penn Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The two-story brick Italianate building was built in 1883 to meet the demand of Quincy&#39;s growing population for water. In addition to the pumping facilities, the building house offices and an apartment for the superintendent. Its use as a pumping station was discontinued in 1899 after Quincy joined with what is now called the MWRA.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, but has since been demolished.</p><br>
<p>Quincy Shore Drive is a historic parkway in Quincy, Massachusetts. The road is one of a series of parkways built by predecessors of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, to provide access to parks and beaches in the Greater Boston area. Its development was proposed in 1893 by Charles Eliot, who promoted the development of many of the area&#39;s parks and parkways. Planning began in 1897, with land acquisition following around 1900. Construction of the 4 mi road was begun in 1903 and completed in 1907.</p><br>
<p>The northern terminus of Quincy Shore Drive is at Hancock Street (Massachusetts Route 3A), just south of the Neponset River. It runs northeasterly for about 1 mi through a neighborhood area, reaching the Quincy Shore Reservation at a junction with East Squantum Street. This section is four lanes wide (two in each direction), separated by a tree-lined median, with additional trees on the sides of the roadway providing an attractive canopy. At East Squantum Street the road turns southeasterly to follow the shore for about 2 mi. The inland side of the roadway is lined primarily with houses, while the shore side provides angled parking and beach access, and provides dramatic views of Boston and outer Boston Harbor. This segment is also four lanes, divided by a grassy median.</p><br>
<p>After passing Fenno Street, the road enters Wollaston Beach Reservation, a city-owned park, which it passes through until it crosses over Black Creek and reaches Furnace Brook Parkway, which provides access to the Blue Hills Reservation. It then runs southerly, away from the shore and through a residential area, reaching its southern terminus at Sea Street.</p><br>
<p>The road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Quincy School is a historic school building at 94 Newbury Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts. The two-story brick building was built in 1906 and enlarged in 1932; its original design was by Hurd & Gore, and the addition was by Hutchins & French. A longtime elementary school, it closed in 1981 following city cutbacks in the wake of Proposition 2 1/2, and was subsequently sold to private developers for conversion to condominiums.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Quincy Police Station is located at 1 Sea Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. The original three-story yellow brick Classical Revival structure was designed by the local firm of Clark, Batty and Gallagher, and built in 1925 for $75,000. It is the city&#39;s first purpose-built police station. It has only modest styling, including brick pilasters separating its window bays, and a simple cornice topped by a parapet which has a raised section containing the city seal. The building has had a modern addition made to it.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Quincy Point Fire Station is a historic fire station at 615 Washington Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built in 1941, it is the third firehouse to occupy the location, and is one of the city&#39;s finest examples of Colonial Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Quincy Point Fire Station is set at the southwest corner of Washington Street (Massachusetts Route 3A) and Cleverly Court, in northeastern Quincy. It is a two-story brick structure, with a T-shaped layout. It is topped by a truncated hip roof, and has a central gambrel-gabled section projecting slightly to the front. This section houses the entrances to the two vehicle bays, and has three sash windows at the second level; there are single sash windows flanking it on either side. The city seal is near the peak of the gable. The interior of building has a spare modern look that is a marked contrast to the exterior Colonial Revival styling.</p><br>
<p>The first station built at Quincy Point was a Greek Revival wood-frame structure erected in 1844; this was replaced in 1893 by a Shingle style building that included a tall tower for drying hoses. The current building was constructed in 1941 to a design by George E. Robinson, a Boston architect with a known reputation for his firehouse designs. His design lacked the then-typical hose drying tower, opting instead for drying facilities (eventually supplemented by a heating system to speed the process) in the basement. (Modern fire hoses no longer need to be dried after use.)</p><br>
<p>The Pratt-Faxon House is a historic house located at 75 Faxon Lane in Quincy, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story Cape style house was built around 1806 by Thomas Pratt, and is one of only two surviving Federal period Cape houses in the city. It was acquired in 1812 by Job Faxon, whose family farmed the land until it was subdivided later in the 19th century. The house is five bays wide, with a side gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding. Its front entrance has simple pilasters framing a vertical board door.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Pinkham House is a historic house at 79 Winthrop Avenue in the Wollaston Heights neighborhood of Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in the 1870s by George Pinkham, the manager of the Wollaston Land Company, which developed Wollaston Heights, and is the only house in Quincy that has a direct association with the Pinkham family. The house is a handsome example of Second Empire styling, with a dormered flared mansard roof, quoined corners, and bracketed eaves.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The C. F. Pettengill House is a historic house at 53 Revere Road in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was probably built in the 1890s; it is a finely-detailed version of a Queen Anne style house which was once common in Quincy. Its features include varied gabling and shingle decoration, as well as a front porch decorated with latticework and turned posts. C. F. Pettengill owned a nearby jewelry and clock shop.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The J. Martin Nowland House is a historic house located at 31 Edgemere Road in Quincy, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>This -story wood-frame house was built in 1915 by J. Martin Nowland, a local attorney and developer of the Edgemere Road area. It is one of the better-preserved of a number of similar Craftsman/Bungalow style houses in the area, with wide overhangs, half-timbered stucco appearance, and the thick posts supporting the porch over the front entry.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Troy Gas Light Company was a gas lighting company in Troy, New York, United States. The Troy Gasholder Building is one of only ten or so remaining examples of a type of building that was common in Northeastern urban areas during the 19th century. It was designed by Frederick A. Sabbaton, a prominent gas engineer in New York State. Originally sheltering a telescoping iron storage tank for coal gas, the brick gasholder house is an imposing structure from a significant period in the history of Troy. For twenty-seven years the company held a monopoly on the manufacture of illuminating gas in the city.</p><br>
<h2>Troy gasholder</h2><br>
<p>The Troy gasholder was a telescoping two-lift type. Its top section had a diameter of 100 ft and a height of 22 ft. The lower section of the telescoping lift had a diameter of 101 feet, 6 inches, and a height of 22 ft. Its storage capacity was 333,000 cuft of gas. The gasholder&#39;s weight provided pressure for the distribution of gas in the supply mains. The gasholder pressure was 4½ inches of water column. The pressure was measured in inches, in terms of a height of column of water, as it was too low to measure in the more conventional pounds per square inch.</p><br>
<h2>Troy Gas Light physical plant</h2><br>
<p>The gasholder house was one part of the complex comprising Troy Gas Light&#39;s physical plant. The main elements of the production facilities were two blocks north of the gasholder house, in a block bounded by Liberty Street, Fifth Avenue, and Washington Street, bounded by the tracks of the New York Central, the former site of the Little Italy Farmers Market.</p><br>
<p>Extending along Fifth Avenue to Liberty Street was a rectangular brick coal shed, 200 ft by 34 ft, with iron doors along Fifth Avenue and a wooden cornice measuring 28 ft.</p><br>
<p>Adjoining the south end of the coal shed was the retort house, trapezoidal in plan, measuring 200 ft by 50 ft, with its longitudinal axis running east to west. A brick structure with iron roof beams, it measured 22 ft to the cornice. The retort house, the core of the operations, was where coal was burned to produce a crude form of the gas.</p><br>
<p>Fronting Hill Street and adjoining the retort building at its southwest corner was the condenser building. This small rectangular building was 10 by 20 ft with a brick façade. The condensers separated coal tar from the crude gas.</p><br>
<p>Adjoining the condenser building on the north was the exhauster building, which housed exhausters (pumps) that forced gas through the system into the holders. A 12-horsepower engine drove the exhausters. Off the north side of this building was another small building housing a 75-horsepower steam boiler. Both of these buildings were single-story.</p><br>
<p>In the open space in the middle of the block north of the retort house, and west of the coal shed, were two iron gas holders, each 50 ft in diameter, neither contained in a gasholder house.</p><br>
<p>At the northwest corner of the property was the purifying building where sulfur was removed from the gas. It was a two-story brick structure measuring 35 by 49 ft. Adjoining it on the south was a two-story building containing the meters and steam-heated offices.</p><br>
<p>At the south end of the property was another coal shed, built of brick and 24 ft high. A tar well was also located here. The company also had coal on a dock at the foot of Division Street, seven blocks away; and there was an additional coal shed, 100 ft by 30 ft, 130 ft to the north of the gasholder house. In the 1870s, the company burned gas coal supplied by Freeman Butts of Cleveland, Ohio.</p><br>
<h2>Frederick A. Sabbaton, engineer of the Troy gasholder</h2><br>
<p>Frederick A. Sabbaton (1830–1894), was a specialist in the construction of gas works, and was the superintendent of the Troy Gas Light Company, from 1862 to 1890. Sabbaton worked extensively in New York State, and came from a family of engineers. His father, Paul A. Sabbation, was a close friend of Robert Fulton, prepared plans and specifications for The Clermont. Frederick Sabbaton&#39;s two brothers, and two sons were all employed as gas engineers. Sabboton supervised, constructed, and owned gas works in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and throughout New York State. He was also involved in the manufacturing of aniline dye, made from coal tar, and designed a gas governor valve.</p><br>
<h2>Troy Gas Light Company</h2><br>
<p>The Troy Gas Light Company first supplied illuminating gas in 1848. They maintained a monopoly on the manufacturing of gas until 1875, when the Troy Citizens Gas Light Company was founded. Ten years later, in 1885, additional competition from the Troy Fuel Gas company was created by the founding of this company. On October 11, 1889, these three companies were consolidated to form the Troy Gas Company. In about 1893, the Troy Electric Light Company (founded 1886), was merged into the Troy Gas Company. Additionally, in 1908, the Beacon Electric Company was merged into the company. In the 1926, the Troy Gas Company, joined with the Mohawk Hudson Power Corporation, which in turn joined with the Niagara-Hudson Power Corporation in 1929.</p><br>
<p>The gasholder house was in operation in 1912, and taken out of service during the 1920s when a new central plant was built in Menands, NY. In the 1930s, the gasholder was removed and sold as scrap metal. The gasholder house has been used for storage by a circus manager, and for marching practice by local bands. It is currently used for storage and a garage, as well as occasional music and arts presentations.</p><br>
<h2>Half-Elevation and truss details</h2><br>
<p>Brykill Farm, originally just Brykill, is a family-owned organic grass-fed beef ranch located on Bruynswick Road  in Gardiner, New York, United States. Formerly a country estate, its 180 acre have a panoramic view of the Shawangunks to the west.</p><br>
<p>First built as a small settler&#39;s home in 1724 and used as a court during the mid-19th century, it was expanded considerably in 1927 in a sympathetic style and material. In 1983 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It has been a ranch, with cottages for weekend visitors, since 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land where Brykill now stands was first granted to Gertrude Bruyn in 1694 by William III and Mary II, hence the name Bruynswick for the area. Later grants followed, and in 1720 an Isaac Smedes bought the land. Four years later he built a small stone house, the first of several structures that would be merged into today&#39;s main house. In 1736 he expanded it to the size of the main block.</p><br>
<p>From Smedes the house would pass into the hands of various members of the locally prominent Jansen and Hasbrouck families, remaining mostly unchanged. During the latter&#39;s ownership, around 1850, the large dining room may have been used as a local courtroom. The waterside gazebo was added in 1890.</p><br>
<p>In 1926, William Bruyn, a descendant of the original landowners, purchased the property for use as a country estate. He retained Kingston architectural firm Halvorsen and Teller to expand the property in a manner that preserved and reinforced its original aesthetics. This entailed adding onto the main block and connecting its components, and building the service complex.</p><br>
<p>The Solomon Nightengale House  was a historic house at 429 Granite Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story Cape style house was built c. 1820 by Solomon Nightengale, whose family had owned the land since the 18th century. It had a four-bay facade, with a central chimney and a sheltered entry in the center-left bay. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The house shown in the image is at the correct address (429 Granite Street) and lot, as verified by reference to the site map provided on the Massachusetts Historical Commission report precedent to its nomination to the National Register. Since it bears little resemblance to the house shown in the Quincy Historical and Architectural Survey, it appears that the 1820 house has been torn down and replaced by the house shown and its identical twin to the left.</p><br>
<p>The Nightengale House is a historic house at 24 Quincy Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in the 1850s, probably by Thomas Nightengale, whose son Jerimiah got the property around 1876. It is a worker&#39;s cottage somewhat typical of many built during that time, with Greek Revival and Gothic Revival decorative elements. Its front facade originally had pilasters at the corners, rising to a frieze, but these details have been lost by the application of siding . Its surviving Gothic details include the steeply pitched front dormers, and pointed-arch windows in the end gables.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Newcomb Place is a historic house at 109 Putnam Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was probably built in the 1850s, and is one of the city&#39;s finest side-hall Greek Revival houses. It has a three-bay facade with fully pedimented gable, an entablature that wraps around the house, and front windows with simple projecting lintels. The house was owned in the second half of the 19th century by Joseph Newcomb, a painter.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The New England Telephone Building is a historic utility building at 10 Merrymount Road in Quincy, Massachusetts. This two-story Classical Revival brick structure was built c. 1906 and doubled in size in 1924, reaching its present proportions. It housed the telephone exchange of the New England Telephone Company until 1940, after which time it was converted to office space.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The John R. Nelson House is a historic house located at 4 Brunswick Street in Quincy, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story timber-framed house was built in 1908 as a summer house by John R. Nelson, who was one of the developers of the Squantum farms. It is one of the area&#39;s best-preserved Craftsman/Bungalow homes. It has a side gable roof with broad eaves showing exposed rafter ends, which also extends over the front porch, where it is supported by stone piers.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Munroe Building is a historic commercial building at 1227-1259 Hancock Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built in 1929 to a design by Shepard & Stearns, it is the best-preserved of two adjacent Colonial Revival two-story commercial blocks built on Hancock Street in the 1920s. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Munroe Building is set on the southwest side of Hancock Street in downtown Quincy, between the street and the Quincy Center MBTA station. To its southeast is a public park, with Quincy City Hall at the far end. It is a rectangular two-story structure, faced in brick with stone trim. The street and park-facing facades are similar, with commercial storefronts on the ground floor that are predominantly 1980s vintage glass and aluminum. The upper level is characterized by a series of gables, each of which has a central window topped by a blind round arch, and flanking sash windows, in a variant of the Palladian window concept. The central window is surrounded by a garland. Between the gable sections are smaller sections with single sash windows that have blind segmented-arch tops.</p><br>
<p>The Colonial Revival building was designed by Shepard and Stearns and built in 1929. Then, as now, it housed retail stores on the ground floor and professional offices above. It was built by Henry Faxon, a major real estate owner of the period. The Dimmock Building, a block down Hancock Street, is another Colonial Revival building from 1929; it has been substantially altered.</p><br>
<p>Moswetuset Hummock is a Native American site and the original name of the tribe  in the region named Massachusetts after them. The wooded hummock in Squantum, Massachusetts, is formally recognized as historic by descendants of the Ponkapoag people.</p><br>
<p>The location was the seat of the ruling Moswetuset Sac&#39;hem (Native American chief) Chickatawbut. During the warm season he conducted tribal council here. Members of the Moswetuset (Massachusett) tribe for centuries made the shore of Quincy Bay their seasonal home.</p><br>
<p>Moswetuset Hummock is understood to be the site where Chickatawbut negotiated with Plymouth Colony commander Myles Standish and Tisquantum, a Patuxet tribe guide.</p><br>
<p>In his 1747 volume A History of New-England, historian Daniel Neal described Moswetuset Hummock as the origin of the name of the indigenous Massachusett tribe. The colonists named the Commonwealth of Massachusetts after them:</p><br>
<p>The Sachem or Sagamore who governed the Indians in this part of the country when the English came hither, had his seat on a small hill, or hummock, containing perhaps an acre and a half, about two leagues to the southward of Boston, which hill or hummock lies in the shape of an Indians arrowhead, which arrow-heads are called in their language MOS, or MONS, with O nasal, and hill in their language is WETUSET hence, this great sachems seat was called Moswetuset, which signifies a hill in the shape of an arrow&#39;s head, and his subjects, the Moswetuset Indians, from whence with a small variation of the word, the Province received the name MASSACHUSETTS.</p><br>
<p>Moswetuset translates to shaped like an arrowhead.</p><br>
<p>In 1970 Moswetuset Hummock was formally recognized and added to the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts. The historic site is also recognized by the Native American descendants known as the Ponkapoag people. Moswetuset Hummock is located on East Squantum Street, the northern end of Wollaston Beach, Quincy Bay.</p><br>
<p>A hummock is a geological term: by definition they are small and less than fifty feet in height. Earth hummocks, in contrast to ice hummocks, are also known as a small rounded knoll, mound of land, or a hillock. Hummocks are believed to be relict features that were formed under colder conditions when permafrost was likely present in the ground.</p><br>
<p>The Edward Miller House is a historic house at 36 Miller Stile Road in Quincy, Massachusetts. This two-story wood-frame house was built in the 1830s by Edward Miller, a local veteran of the American Revolutionary War. The house is a well-preserved Federal style structure, despite having experienced significant alterations c. 1912, when it was used as an inn, and in 1960, when it housed the offices of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Herman McIntire House is a historic house at 55 Dixwell Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house is one of two houses built and lived in by Herman McIntire, a local realtor. This one  is a well-preserved example of a large Shingle-style house, built in the affluent President&#39;s Hill neighborhood. The large gambrel gables are typical of the Shingle style, as are the varied window shapes. Its exterior has been partially compromised by the application of siding instead of shingling .</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Massachusetts Fields School is a historic former school building at the corner of Rawson Road and Beach Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built in 1896, it is a high-quality Colonial Revival brick building, built during Quincy&#39;s revolutionary transformation of its school system in the late 19th century. The school was closed in 1982 and was renovated into apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Massachusetts Fields School building occupies the length of a city block on the south side of Rawson Road, bounded on the west by Willet Street and on the east by Beach Street, in the city&#39;s Wollaston neighborhood. It is a two-story brick structure with granite trim, set on a high granite foundation, with a hip roof. A granite water table separates the foundation from the first floor, and a similar stringcourse separates the two floors. Windows are set in openings with granite sills and brick lintels. The original part of the building is T-shaped with a projecting central pavilion that is flanked by lower entry porches. A large addition, built in 1923-24, stands to the rear of the original block.</p><br>
<p>Following the publication in 1873 of a blistering report on the poor quality of the city&#39;s district schools, Quincy embarked on a program of improvement that included the construction of new, more centralized, graded school buildings. Between 1892 and 1900 four new school buildings were built, including this one, which was completed in 1896. It was designed by Arthur W. Wright, possibly in conjunction with the builder, Stephen O. Moxon, and is similar in plan to two of the other schools built, the Gridley Bryant School and the Cranch School. The building was named for the broad plain between Mount Wollaston and the Neponset River. It was enlarged in 1923-24 due to increased enrollment, using similar materials, but with more Colonial Revival styling than the original. The school was closed in 1982, and has been converted into residences.</p><br>
<p>The Edwin W. Marsh House is  a historic house at 17 Marsh Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story five-bay wood-frame house was built c. 1851, and had a rear ell. The Cape style cottage had vernacular Greek Revival styling, including corner pilasters. It had a bracketed entry portico that was probably added during the Italianate period .</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The lot is now occupied by a multiunit townhouse (pictured).</p><br>
<p>The Charles Marsh House was a historic house at 248 Presidents Lane in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in the 1860s, and was described as one of the citys finest examples of Italianate styling. It has been demolished around 2009.</p><br>
<p>Its setting was described as a "Spacious lot adjoining Robert Burns park but close to commercial Granite Street...."</p><br>
<p>The house was (and remains) listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Lyon&#39;s Turning Mill is a historic turning mill that created granite columns on Ricciuti Drive in Quincy, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first quarry on the site, one of the earliest quarries in Quincy, was established on the site about 1825. In the late 1880s James Lyon bought the quarry and organized the Lyons Granite Company in 1893 with a paid in capital of $40,000. The mill, 200 ft by 90 ft (60m by 27m) was built in 1893-94 and equipped with lathes for turning large granite cylinders and jennies for polishing.</p><br>
<p>The mills power plant had a 150 hp steam boiler and 100 hp steam engine which ran the shaft, belt and pulley system that drove the plants machinery. It had a 20-ton traveling derrick and three other derricks with capacities ranging from 5 to 25 tons. It was capable of producing spheres up to 6 ft (1.8m) diameter and cylinders up to 3 ft (1.9m) diameter and 22 ft (7m) long.</p><br>
<p>The mill employed about 80 workers in various trades until 1907, when it closed for unknown reasons.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 1980. It is the proposed home of the recently formed Quincy Quarry & Granite Workers Museum.</p><br>
<p>The George A. Barker House is a historic house located at 74 Greenleaf Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built in the late 1870s for the son of a local granite quarry owner, it is a good local example of Queen Anne architecture with Stick style details. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The George A. Barker House is located in a residential area north of downtown Quincy, at the northwest corner of Greenleaf and Putnam Streets. It is set on a 0.5 acre lot with a low granite retaining wall on the two street-facing sides. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, with a truncated hip roof, and an exterior finished in wooden clapboards. It has applied woodwork detailing typical of the style, as well as asymmetrical massing and angled bracketing on the front porch. The main roof eave is adorned with brackets and a band of jigsawn picket fence woodwork. The main facade is three bays wide, with the entrance at the center, were a gable is set above the porch stairs. An early 20th-century garage is located at the back of the property.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in the late 1870s for George Barker, the son of Henry Barker, owner of some of the largest of Quincy&#39;s granite quarries, whose own house also stands on Greenleaf Street. It is one of two Stick Style houses on Greenleaf Street, and one of two well-preserved examples of the style in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Henry F. Barker House is a historic house at 103 Greenleaf Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. The -story wood-frame house was built in 1871 for Henry F. Barker, owner of some of Quincy&#39;s largest granite quarries. It is one of the best-preserved Italianate houses on Greenleaf Street, which is lined with fashionable 19th-century houses. The L-shaped house has paired brackets and dentil moulding in the eaves, projecting polygonal window bays with similar features, and a decorated porch in the crook of the L.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>S. H. Barnicoat Monuments, S. H. Barnicoat Granite Works, or, more recently, Hancock Monument Co. was a granite workshop at 114 Columbia Street, at the corner of Centre Street,</p><br>
<p>in Quincy, Massachusetts. It was housed in a rare surviving 19th-century granite workshop building dating to the 1890s, and was, at the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, one of the only 19th-century granite workshops operating in the city. Its main feature was a derrick more than 90 ft tall that was used to move granite around the property.</p><br>
<p>The workshop has since been demolished and replaced by a Valvoline lubrication garage and Dunkin Donuts.</p><br>
<p>The William R. Bateman House is a historic house located at 148 Monroe Road in Quincy, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The -story, wood-framed house was built in the 1890s for William Bateman, Boston-based wool dealer. The large Queen Anne style house is located in President&#39;s Hill, at that time a fashionable neighborhood for upper-class local and Boston businessmen. The house as a complex roofline and massing, and its first floor and porch are built out of fieldstone, a rare use of the material in the area.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Baxter Street Historic District is a residential historic district roughly at 19-34 Baxter Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It encompasses an enclave of four duplex worker housing units of a type called the "Quincy Cottage", which were built in the 1880s for workers in a locally important shoe manufacturing company. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Baxter Street is located in a densely-built residential area east of Quincy Center, south of Washington Street and east of Revere Street. It was laid out on a farm previously owned by Josiah Baxter. John E. Drake established a shoe factory a short way east of these houses in the 1870s (near the corner of Parmenter Place), and was employing 250 workers by the 1880s. He built the four duplexes in this district in the 1880s to provide residential space for some of his workers.</p><br>
<p>The four duplexes are all wood-frame structures, of a type called a "Quincy Cottage" which were once quite numerous in the city. The basic form is a -story rectangular block, with a projecting entrance and a pair of gabled dormers in the roof. This district includes 19–21, 25–27, 26–28, and 32-24 Baxter Street. Stylistically they represent several subtypes of the form, with some finished in clapboards and others in stucco. The presence and configuration of porches varies, as do added stylistic details such as bracketing in the eaves and the shape and size of dormers. All have gabled dormers framed by carved brackets.</p><br>
<p>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&#39;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.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Brown–Hodgkinson House is a historic house at 42 Bicknell Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. This two story wood-frame house, built in 1832, was one of the first in what is known as the Germantown neighborhood. It was built by Captain Charles Brown, who moved here from Provincetown, seeing the beginning of growth of a fishing community. The house is predominantly Federal in character , and received Queen Anne detailing in the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
