August 28, 2009 – Historic Buildings of Massachusetts

Stebbins-Hammatt House (1795)

by Dan/August 28, 2009September 17, 2016/Colonial Revival, Federal, Houses, Longmeadow

The Stebbins-Hammett House began as a brick house, painted red, built in 1795 for Benjamin Stebbins, in the year following his marriage to Lucy Colton. In the twentieth century, the house was owned by the Hammatt family (Julia B. Hammatt was a graduate of Wellesley in 1925). The house was eventually completely rebuilt in wood, with the exception of the two original brick front rooms on the first floor.

Brewer-Young House (1884)

by Dan/August 28, 2009September 17, 2016/Colonial Revival, Houses, Longmeadow

The Brewer-Young House in Longmeadow is a Colonial Revival mansion built in 1884 as a residence for Rev. Samuel Wolcott. The house was next occupied, in 1889, by State Senator George Brewer, who covered the exterior of the house with brown shingles. It was sold, in 1922, to Mary Ida Young, wife of Wilbur Fenelon Young, the inventor of the liniment Absorbine. Young had the brown shingles removed.