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Boston Post Road Historic District: Boston Post Road Historic District: February 11, 1983 : Both sides of the Boston Post Rd. from Plain Rd. to Stony Brook: Weston: 3: Case's Corner Historic District: Case's Corner Historic District: September 12, 2002
The Edmund Fowle House is a historic house and local history museum at 28 Marshall Street in Watertown, Massachusetts, USA.Built in 1772, it is the second-oldest surviving house in Watertown (after the Browne House, built c. 1698), and served as the meeting place for the Massachusetts Provincial Congress in the first year of the American Revolutionary War.
The Charles River parkways were laid out in concept in a plan developed by landscape architect Charles Eliot for the Metropolitan Parks Commission (MPC, predecessor to the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), now the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, or DCR). Land acquisition for the parks lining the Charles began in ...
Weston was incorporated in 1713, and protection of the town's historic resources is driven by the Weston Historical Commission [2] and Weston Historical Society. [3] The town has one Local Historic District, 10 National Register Districts, 26 Historic Areas, and seven houses individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The district encompasses 16 full blocks and portions of 8 additional city blocks in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Weston. It developed between about 1840 and 1920, and includes representative examples of Federal and Late Victorian style architecture.
The Watertown Arsenal was a major American arsenal located on the northern shore of the Charles River in Watertown, Massachusetts. The site is now registered on the ASCE 's List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks and on the US National Register of Historic Places , and it is home to a park, restaurants, mixed use office space, and formerly ...
During the American Civil War, a new commander's quarters was commissioned by then-Capt. Thomas J. Rodman, inventor of the Rodman gun, for the Watertown Arsenal. The lavish, 12,700 sq ft (1,180 m 2 ), quarters would ultimately become one of the largest commander's quarters on any U.S. military installation.
The Miles Pratt House is a historic house in Watertown, Massachusetts. The 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 story wood-frame house was built sometime between 1860 and 1874, and is Watertown's finest surviving Italianate residence. It has wide eaves with paired brackets, and a front entry hood with arched pendants reminiscent of an Italian palazzo.