The Fred Holland Day House is a historic house located at 93 Day Street in
Norwood, Massachusetts
Norwood is a town and census-designated place in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Norwood is part of the Greater Boston area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,611. The town was named after Norwood, England. Norwood is ...
.
Description and history
The Day House was originally built in 1859 for Lewis Day, a Boston tanner, and wife Anna (Smith) Day. Architect
Benjamin F. Dwight
Benjamin ( he, ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the last of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel (Jacob's th ...
designed the house in the
Second Empire style, with a high
mansard roof
A mansard or mansard roof (also called a French roof or curb roof) is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides, with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The ...
and
cupola. Dwight was also the architect of nearby
Oak View, begun in 1868. During 1890-92 the Day House was rebuilt at the direction of the Days' son,
F. Holland Day
Fred Holland Day (23 July 1864—23 November 1933), known professionally as F. Holland Day, was an American photographer and publisher. He was prominent in literary and photography circles in the late nineteenth century and was a leading Pict ...
, who hired Boston architect
J. Williams Beal
John Williams Beal (May 9, 1855 - July 7, 1919) was an architect in Boston, Massachusetts.
Biography
He was born on 19 May 1855 in Scituate, Massachusetts, to John Beal and Lucy Ann Beal.
He married Mary Washburn.
He trained at Massachusetts In ...
to remodel the house in the
Tudor Revival style.
[John M. Grove, ]
Norwood
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It is a -story wood-framed house, with complex massing and a busy roofline with gables of various size. Its ground floor is finished in stone, and the upper levels have the half-timbering typical of the Tudor Revival style. It now houses the Norwood Historical Society and is open to the public for touring.
The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places on April 18, 1977 for its architecture as well as its association with Day, a notable photographer and publisher.
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
References
External links
Norwood Historic Society
Houses completed in 1859
Norwood, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Museums in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Historic house museums in Massachusetts
Tudor Revival architecture in Massachusetts
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