The Baxter–King House is a historic house at 36 Heritage Road in

Quincy, Massachusetts Quincy ( ) is a coastal U.S. city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county and a part of Greater Boston, Metropolitan Boston as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2020 was 1 ...

. The -story wood-frame house was built in the 1860s, and is one of the city'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. The house was listed on the

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in 1989.

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Houses in Quincy, Massachusetts Italianate architecture in Massachusetts Houses completed in 1860 National Register of Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts 1860 establishments in Massachusetts {{NorfolkCountyMA-NRHP-stub