The Ginery Twichell House is a historic house located at 17 Kent Street in
Brookline, Massachusetts
Brookline () is an affluent town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, and part of the Greater Boston, Boston metropolitan area. An exclave of Norfolk County, Brookline borders six of Boston's neighborhoods: Brighton, Boston, Brighton ...
.
Description and history
The (two and half) story wood-frame house was built in the year 1844–1855 by
Ginery Twichell
Ginery Twichell (August 26, 1811 – July 23, 1883) was president of the Boston and Worcester Railroad in the 1860s, the Republican Representative for Massachusetts for three consecutive terms and the sixth president of the Atchison, Tope ...
, a leading
Massachusetts
Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...
politician, as well as a nationally prominent stagecoach and railroad owner. Twichell lived at 40 Kent Street. The house is a well-preserved example of transitional
Greek
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Revival-
Italianate
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styling. Its massing and roofline are typically
Greek Revival
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, but its gable ends and eaves have doubled brackets, and its windows are capped by scrollwork decoration.
The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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on October 17, 1985.
See also
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References
Houses in Brookline, Massachusetts
Italianate architecture in Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Greek Revival architecture in Massachusetts
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