The Eminence is an historic estate house located on a 5.6 acre riverfront parcel at 122 Islington Road in the village of
Auburndale in
Newton, Massachusetts
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is approximately west of downtown Boston. Newton resembles a patchwork of thirteen villages, without a city center. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the population of Ne ...
. Built in 1853, it was designed by noted
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
architect
Hammatt Billings
Charles Howland Hammatt Billings (1818–1874) was an artist and architect from Boston, Massachusetts.
Among his works are the original illustrations for ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' (both the initial printing
and an expanded 1853 edition),
the Nat ...
in the
Italian Villa style of architecture, and is one of two surviving high-style Italianate estate houses in the Auburndale area. It was purchased, in unfinished state, by Thomas Hall, a magnetic instrument maker, in 1853.
On September 4, 1986, it was added to 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 ...
.
See also
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References
National Register of Historic Places in Newton, Massachusetts
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1853
Houses in Newton, Massachusetts
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