National Register of Historic Places

Davis, Thomas Aspinwall, House

Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Listed
October 16, 1985
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
85003260

About this property

The Thomas Aspinwall Davis House is a historic house at 29 Linden Place in Brookline, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1844, by Thomas Aspinwall Davis, later a mayor of Boston, and is one of the earliest buildings to survive from his Linden Park project, the first residential subdivision in Brookline. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The Thomas Aspinwall Davis House stands in Brookline's Linden Park residential neighborhood, east of Brookline Village, on the south side of Linden Place nearly opposite Linden Square. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The house is predominantly Italianate in style, with three bays across, hooded front windows, and a cupola. The central front gable is decorated with Gothic bargeboard, and the building supposedly had a more ornately decorated porch before its move in 1903. The Davis family had for a long time been landowners in this area of Brookline. In 1843, Thomas Aspinwall Davis took the area surrounding what is now Linden Park and Linden Square, and worked with landscape designer Alexander Wadsworth to lay out the two small parks and house lots. The house lots, auctioned in 1843 and 1844, became Brookline's first residential subdivision. Davis built this house in 1843, originally facing Linden Park. It was moved in 1903 to its present orientation facing Linden Place. National Register of Historic Places listings in Brookline, Massachusetts

Location

29 Linden Pl.
Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
42.33222, -71.11687

Categories

COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTPOLITICS/GOVERNMENTARCHITECTURE
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Sources

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When was Davis, Thomas Aspinwall, House listed on the National Register?

Davis, Thomas Aspinwall, House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1985.

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Davis, Thomas Aspinwall, House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Davis, Thomas Aspinwall, House is recorded as the industrial era.

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