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The Preserved Gardner House is a historic house located in
This -story, wood-framed house was built in about 1820, and is a good local example of a
Swansea, Massachusetts
Swansea is a town in Bristol County in southeastern Massachusetts.
It is located at the mouth of the Taunton River, just west of Fall River, south of Boston, and southeast of Providence, Rhode Island. The population was 17,144 at the 2020 cens ...
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Description and history
This -story, wood-framed house was built in about 1820, and is a good local example of a Federal style
Federal-style architecture is the name for the classicizing architecture built in the newly founded United States between 1780 and 1830, and particularly from 1785 to 1815, which was heavily based on the works of Andrea Palladio with several inn ...
farmhouse. Its porches were added in the late 19th century, when the house was converted to a summer residence when Swansea became a fashionable summer resort area. The house and surrounding land were gifted to the town, which has developed much of the property as athletic fields. The house itself was reported in 2014 to be in deteriorating condition.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on February 16, 1990.
See also
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Bristol County, MassachusettsReferences
Houses in Swansea, Massachusetts Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Bristol County, Massachusetts Federal architecture in Massachusetts Houses completed in 1820 1820 establishments in Massachusetts {{BristolCountyMA-NRHP-stub