Baxter Street Historic District
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The Baxter Street Historic District is a residential historic district roughly at 19-34 Baxter Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It encompasses an enclave of four duplex worker housing units of a type called the "Quincy Cottage", which were built in the 1880s for workers in a locally important shoe manufacturing company. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Baxter Street is located in a densely-built residential area east of Quincy Center, south of Washington Street and east of Revere Street. It was laid out on a farm previously owned by Josiah Baxter. John E. Drake established a shoe factory a short way east of these houses in the 1870s (near the corner of Parmenter Place), and was employing 250 workers by the 1880s. He built the four duplexes in this district in the 1880s to provide residential space for some of his workers. The four duplexes are all wood-frame structures, of a type called a "Quincy Cottage" which were once quite numerous in the city. The basic form is a 1+1⁄2-story rectangular block, with a projecting entrance and a pair of gabled dormers in the roof. This district includes 19–21, 25–27, 26–28, and 32-24 Baxter Street. Stylistically they represent several subtypes of the form, with some finished in clapboards and others in stucco. The presence and configuration of porches varies, as do added stylistic details such as bracketing in the eaves and the shape and size of dormers. All have gabled dormers framed by carved brackets. National Register of Historic Places listings in Quincy, Massachusetts
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When was Baxter Street Historic District listed on the National Register?
Baxter Street Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 19, 1989.
What type of historic resource is Baxter Street Historic District?
Baxter Street Historic District is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.
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