Red Top

90 Somerset St., Belmont, Massachusetts. County/parish: Middlesex.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 11, 1971. NRIS 71000911.

3 contributing buildings.

Also known as:

  • William Dean Howells House

From Wikipedia:

Redtop (Belmont, Massachusetts)

Redtop (also written as Red Top) is a historic Shingle Style house located at 90 Somerset Street, Belmont, Massachusetts. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1971 for its association with writer and literary critic William Dean Howells (1837–1920), a leading proponent of realism in literature. The Shingle Style house was designed by Howells' brother-in-law William Rutherford Mead of the architecture firm McKim, Mead & Bigelow, and it was the Howells' residence from its construction in 1877 to 1882.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63793887