Stephen Foster House (Topsfield, Massachusetts)

Stephen Foster House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	109 North Street, Topsfield, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°39′35″N 70°56′2″W
Built	c. 1690 (MACRIS)
Architectural style	Colonial
MPS	First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR
NRHP reference No.	90000262[1]
Added to NRHP	March 9, 1990

The Stephen Foster House is a historic house in a rural area of Topsfield, Massachusetts. It is a rare instance of a First Period house (built c. 1690) in which its original footprint is still readily discernible, and has not been obscured by subsequent modifications. The only immediately overt exterior indication of the house's great age is the steep pitch of its roof. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wooden house framed with massive oak timbers. It is a "single cell" house, only three asymmetrically placed window bays wide and one room deep, with a chimney on the left side. Its exterior was complete restyled in a 19th-century vernacular style.^[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.^[1]

See also

• List of the oldest buildings in Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "NRHP nomination for Stephen Foster House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-06.