853 Hancock St., Quincy, Massachusetts. County/parish: Norfolk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 20, 1989. NRIS 89001347.
Part of Quincy MRA (NRIS 64000289).
2 contributing buildings.
The Winfield House was a historic house at 853 Hancock Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built c. 1880, it was a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure with exuberant Queen Anne styling. It was built by John Chamberlin, a traveling hardware salesman. The house was particularly distinctive for its onion-domed tower near the center of the structure, an unusual placement and topping for such a tower. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Winfield House served as a restaurant for 50 years. The house was demolished in 1998 by its then owners, Eastern Nazarene College, to make way for a campus expansion; all that is left now is stairs leading up to an empty house lot and the elm tree. The carriage house and a portion of the main house floating staircase were moved to a private residence in Stoughton, MA.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792461