Greek Revival – Page 8 – Historic Buildings of Massachusetts

Company Officer’s Quarters, Springfield Armory (1836)

by Dan/December 1, 2011/Greek Revival, Military, Springfield

A number of buildings were constructed at the Springfield Armory to serve as Company Officer’s Quarters. Pictured above is one of a pair of adjacent identical structures built in the Greek Revival style in 1836. Next to these is an earlier building, dating to 1833. A fourth one, facing Armory Square, was built in 1880. All four buildings are now part of the campus of Springfield Technical Community College. Scroll or click below to see pictures of the other three buildings: Continue reading “Company Officer’s Quarters, Springfield Armory (1836)”

Dr. S. H. Spaulding House (1829)

by Dan/November 30, 2011/Greek Revival, Houses, Natick

Dr. Stephen Hodgman Spaulding (1787-1866) was born in Chelmsford and studied three years at the Harvard Medical School. As described in the History of Middlesex County, Vol. III (1890):

He commenced practice in Littleton, Mass., remained a few years, then removed to Dublin, New Hampshire, where he secured an excellent and lucrative practice. After a few years he found that the severity of the winters, and the almost impassable state of the roads—being obliged to travel with snowshoes without any regard to boundary lines or fences —was telling upon his health, and this decided him to accept an invitation to settle in South Natick, Mass., where again he succeeded in building up an extensive practice.
In about 1841 he removed to Newton Upper Falls, and associated himself with his son-in-law, Dr. Samuel S. Whitney, who had married his only child, Sarah W. Spalding, in general practice. In 1843 his house and stable were burned. He then settled in Reading, Mass., and continued in practice there for several years. Later in life, after an active practice of thirty years, he retired, and removing back to South Natick, made that his home till he died. In his last years he was a great sufferer from disease. He was a member of the Unitarian Church and Parish of South Natick, and the large number at his funeral attested the respect and esteem of his towns-people.

His 1829 hipped-roof house is at 42 Eliot Street in South Natick.

John Adams House, Marblehead (1795)

by Dan/November 15, 2011/Greek Revival, Houses, Marblehead

On State Street, near Washington Street, in Marblehead is a gambrel-roofed house which, according to the historic marker on the house, was built in 1795 by Benoice Johnson, cabinet maker, for John Adams, mariner. The facade of the house is now Greek Revival, so it was probably altered in the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

59 Phillips Place, Northampton (1848)

by Dan/November 7, 2011November 7, 2011/Greek Revival, Houses, Northampton

Phillips Place in Northampton was laid out in 1847 and quickly became a very fashionable residential street. The house at No. 59 was built not long after the street was opened, circa 1848-1850. It is the only Greek Revival-style house on the street, which is dominated by later Gothic cottages. The house’s first floor porch is a later addition.

College Hall, Amherst (1828)

by Dan/October 12, 2011/Amherst, Churches, Collegiate, Greek Revival

College Hall in Amherst was built in 1828-1829 as the third meeting house of the First Congregational Church of Amherst. It was built on land donated by Amherst College in return for the right to hold commencement and other ceremonies in the church. When a new Congregational church was built on Main Street in 1867-1868, the College purchased the old church building, which was expanded and remodeled (with the addition of new columns to the front) and rededicated in 1905. Continue reading “College Hall, Amherst (1828)”

Levi Lincoln, Jr. House (1836)

by Dan/October 8, 2011January 1, 2012/Greek Revival, Houses, Sturbridge

Levi Lincoln, Jr., distantly related to and a supporter of Abraham Lincoln, was a lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts (1825-1834) and in congress (1834-1841). He later returned to his native Worcester, where he served as mayor. He built a Greek Revival house on Elm Street in Worcester in 1836. When Lincoln’s heirs sold the property for development in 1949, it was rescued by Old Sturbridge Village, where it was moved in 1952. Too much of a urban mansion to be suitable for the Village itself, the Lincoln House was placed instead along Route 20, near the entrance to the museum. It was opened to the public as a restaurant at first, became a fabric shop in 1968 and has housed a branch of Country Curtains since 1982.

Cooley Griffin House (1840)

by Dan/October 4, 2011October 5, 2011/Greek Revival, Houses, Southwick

At 476 College Highway, near the intersection with Depot Street in Southwick, is a Greek Revival-style house, built around 1840. In the later nineteenth century it was owned by Cooley Anson Griffin, who married Effie J. Doherty in 1892. In the twentieth century, their son, Raymond George Griffin, lived in the Loomis J. Sackett House, next door, which was torn down after October 1942. Born in 1906, Raymond Griffin attended the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMASS), where he made his mark on the 1926 baseball and 1927 basketball teams.