Brown Square House

Brown Square House

Brown Square House
Location Newburyport, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°48′40″N 70°52′27″W / 42.81111°N 70.87417°W / 42.81111; -70.87417Coordinates: 42°48′40″N 70°52′27″W / 42.81111°N 70.87417°W / 42.81111; -70.87417
Built 1801
Architect Moses Brown
Architectural style Federal
Part of Newburyport Historic District (#84002411)
NRHP Reference # 75000284[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP March 7, 1975
Designated CP August 2, 1984

The Brown Square House, now the Garrison Inn, is a historic pair of rowhouses at 11 Brown Square in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The four story brick rowhouses were built in 1809 and 1810 by Moses Brown, a Newburyport landowner, shipbuilder, and shipping merchant. Brown had planned to build a much longer row, but suffered financial reverses and was unable to build more than the pair. Sometime before 1849 the building was adapted for use as a boarding house. In 1922 it was turned into a hotel, named in honor of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, a statue of whom graces the square. That hotel closed in 1948,[2] but the building has since been rehabilitated and reopened under the same name.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975,[1] and included in the Newburyport Historic District in 1984.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "MACRIS inventory record for Brown Square House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-19.

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