Hillside (Plymouth, Massachusetts)

Hillside
Location Plymouth, Massachusetts
Coordinates 41°56′54″N 70°40′48″W / 41.94833°N 70.68000°W / 41.94833; -70.68000Coordinates: 41°56′54″N 70°40′48″W / 41.94833°N 70.68000°W / 41.94833; -70.68000
Built 1845
Architect Longfellow,Rev. Samuel
Architectural style No Style Listed
NRHP Reference #

75001626

[1]
Added to NRHP September 18, 1975

Hillside is a historic house at 230 Summer Street in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built in 1845, and has Gothic Revival styling. It was the site at which Benjamin Watson established one of the nation's first garden nurseries, the "Old Colony Gardens". It is also where Ralph Waldo Emerson stayed the night before his wedding with Plymouth native Lydia Jackson.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for Hillside". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-24.

Unfortunately Hillside although once a vacation spot for Thoreau, now is owned by a drunk who sold off a large portion of the estate as development land in the 90's.


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