Description and history
The William Blodgett House stands in a residential area southwest of the village center of Newton Corner, at the northwest corner of Centre Street and Fairmont Avenue. The house is set facing Centre Street on a low rise edged by a low stone retaining wall. It is stories in height, and is basically rectangular in footprint, although this is obscured by numerous projections. It has a side-gable roof, with two large front-facing gables, between which is a small hip-roof dormer. A polygonal turret projects from the left side. Gable eaves are adorned with brackets, single and in pairs, and there is applied woodwork on some sections. An elaborate front porch is matched in decorative detail by a porte-cochere on the side of the house, where a semicircular drive provides access from Fairmont Avenue. The brick chimneys that project from the roof have panelled sides and corbelled tops. The house was built about 1875 and is an excellent representation of Stick style architecture. William Blodgett, who bought it in 1879, was a Boston carpet merchant, and typifies the upper-class suburban residences built in Newton during the post-Civil War years.See also
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