The Hammond House is an historic house located at 9 Old Orchard Road in the village of Chestnut Hill in Newton, Massachusetts. With an estimated construction date of 1645-1730, it is believed to be the oldest house in Newton. It is also a rare example of a First Period house that was started as a single cell (three bays with chimney behind one bay), that was expanded to five bays later in the First Period; such expansion usually took place later in the 18th century, during the Georgian period. The house has been extended multiple times over the intervening centuries; the original core now lies just east of the main entrance.[2] The original house was built by Hon. Ebenezer Stone when he moved from the Stone homestead at Mount Auburn in Watertown.[3]
Hammond House | |
 Hammond House | |
   | |
| Location | 9 Old Orchard Rd., Newton, Massachusetts |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 42°19′56.7″N 71°10′22.3″W / 42.332417°N 71.172861°W |
| Built | c. 1645-1730 |
| Architectural style | Colonial, First Period |
| Part of | Old Chestnut Hill Historic District (ID86001756) |
| MPS | First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 90000175 [1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | March 9, 1990 |
| Designated CP | September 4, 1986 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.[1] In the early 2020s the house was remodeled, a project that entailed removing most of the historic interior finishes and the creation of a non-historic contemporary aesthetic.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Hammond House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^ "Simon Stone genealogy : Ancestry and descendants of Deacon Simon Stone Watertown, Mass., 1320-1926 / By J. Gardner Bartlett".
- ^ "9 Orchard Rd".