72 Walnut St., Brookline, Massachusetts. County/parish: Norfolk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 17, 1985. NRIS 85003277.
Part of Brookline MRA (NRIS 64000274).
1 contributing building.The Hotel Kempsford is a historic apartment house at 72 Walnut Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The four story brick building was designed by Brookline architect Obed Smith and built in 1875 for Eben Wright, a real estate developer who also built the nearby Hotel Adelaide. This building is a high-quality local example of Victorian Gothic architecture in brick. The apartment units inside are also in a distinctive two-story plan, one of the earliest examples of the type.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792472