56 Fairmont Ave., Newton, Massachusetts. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 04, 1986. NRIS 86001881.
Part of Newton MRA (NRIS 64000285).
2 contributing buildings.
The S. Curtis Smith House is a historic house at 56 Fairmont Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1883, and is one of Newton's finest Queen Anne Victorian houses. It exhibits a full range of that style's features, including asymmetrical massing with numerous and varied gables, a tower with an octagonal arched roof, bands of different types of shingling, and an ornately decorated front portico. The house was built for S. Curtis Smith, a schoolteacher.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as the "Curtis S. Smith House".
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791154