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Crystal Lake and Pleasant Street Historic District

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Roswell Turner, a local businessman, began amassing land in this area in the 1840s. Turner was responsible for extending Beacon Street to the area, and laid out Lake Avenue. Many of his lots in his subdivisions were later developed by Charles Davis, a Boston-based piano merchant and local real estate
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Later styles are also well represented in the 23 properties in the district. 97 Lake Avenue is a particularly well-sited Queen Anne Victorian, with flared eaves, conical tower, and elaborate porte cochere. Stick styling is represented in the house at 908 Beacon Street, and an excellent Colonial
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houses, with fanciful scroll-sawn vergeboard decoration in the gables, dormers, and porches. Another of the older houses in the district is the c. 1858 Bracketed Italianate house at 21 Lake Avenue. The only Second Empire house in the district is a modest cottage at 112 Pleasant Street.
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The oldest houses in the district are on Pleasant Street, and date to the 1850s. The street has a series of well-preserved
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Revival home is found at 38 Lake Avenue. This house was built c. 1893 for David Andrews, president of the
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Roughly bounded by Sudbury Aqueduct, Pleasant Ave., Lake Ave., and Crystal St. and Webster Ct.,
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encompasses a streetcar suburban residential subdivision developed between 1860 and 1895 in
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developer. Crystal Lake was at the time also developed as a recreational resource.
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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton, Massachusetts
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Crystal Lake and Pleasant Street Historic District is located in Greater Boston area
Crystal Lake and Pleasant Street Historic District is located in Massachusetts
Crystal Lake and Pleasant Street Historic District is located in the United States
Newton, Massachusetts
42°19′48″N 71°12′5″W / 42.33000°N 71.20139°W / 42.33000; -71.20139
Colonial Revival
MPS
86001735
Newton, Massachusetts
Sudbury Aqueduct
MBTA
Green Line D branch
Brookline
National Register of Historic Places
Carpenter Gothic
Boston Bridge Works
National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton, Massachusetts


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"NRHP nomination for Crystal Lake and Pleasant Street Historic District"

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