The Alvah Kittredge House is an historic house in the highlands of the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The -story

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mansion was built in 1836 for Alvah Kittredge, a leading real estate developer of the time. It was originally located at the site of the Roxbury Low Fort, a defensive earthworks of the

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, and was moved to its present site after 1896. It was the home of noted Boston architect

Nathaniel J. Bradlee Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee (June 1, 1829 – December 17, 1888) was a Boston architect and a partner in the firm of Bradlee, Winslow & Wetherell. Life Bradlee was born in Boston to Elizabeth Davis and Samuel Bradlee. He married Julia Rebec ...

for 30 years. The house was listed on the

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in 1973 and designated a

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by the

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in 2016.https://www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/PETSTATS_June2016_tcm3-53570.pdf

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Houses completed in 1836 Houses in Boston National Register of Historic Places in Boston Historic district contributing properties in Massachusetts Landmarks in Roxbury, Boston Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, Massachusetts {{Boston-struct-stub

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