The Eliphalet Spurr House is a historic house located at 103 Walnut Street in
Brookline, Massachusetts,
United States
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.
Description and history
The -story wood-frame house was built in 1798 by Eliphalet Spurr, who was locally prominent as one of the first operators of a local coach service, providing transport to
Boston
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(which then required a roundabout trip via
Roxbury and the
Boston Neck
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). It is the oldest building in the
Pill Hill, and one of the town's few 18th century
Georgian
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** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group
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houses.
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 completed in 1798
Georgian architecture in Massachusetts
Houses in Brookline, Massachusetts
National Register of Historic Places in Brookline, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
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