Addington Gardner House

Addington Gardner House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	128 Hollis St., Sherborn, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°12′58″N 71°23′55″W
Area	2.3 acres (0.93 ha)
Built	1730 (1730)
Architectural style	Colonial
MPS	First Period Buildings of Eastern Massachusetts TR
NRHP reference No.	90000179
Added to NRHP	March 9, 1990

The Addington Gardner House is a historic First Period house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Its oldest portions dating to about 1730, it is one of the community's oldest surviving buildings, and a good example of transitional First-Second Period style. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Description and history

The Addington Gardner House stands in a rural residential area of southwestern Sherborn, at the northeast corner of Hollis Street and Western Avenue. It is a 2-12 story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a corniced entablature. Windows are simply framed, with the second-floor windows butting against the eave. A single story ell, added c. 1800 projects from the rear, connecting the house to a later carriage house. The interior timbers show evidence of 18th-century construction methods consistent with a c. 1730 construction date. Beams are exposed in the front chambers of the main block, and the left front chamber has a fireplace surround with early Second Period carving.

The oldest portions of this house (possibly just the front rooms) were built c. 1730 by Addington Gardner. The house is a classic five-bay 2+1⁄2-story timber-frame structure, with a large central chimney. The house remained in the Gardner family until 1911, when it was sold to a local farmer and politician.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Sherborn, Massachusetts