105 State Street

History

This building is an excellent example of the fine domestic architecture built by Newburyport's mercantile class at the turn of the nineteenth century. It is adjacent to the central business district, on State Street, a street with excellent examples of Georgian and Federal domestic architecture, along with the commercial buildings. The home was altered from single family to a multiple family dwelling at an unknown date.

This house has all of the hallmarks of the Federal style. The form of the building is typically Federal with its symmetrical facade and decreasing window size in the upper stories. The hipped roof and twelve light window sash are in keeping with the style. Exceptional features of this house are the unaltered arched doorways with fanlights and the matching arched window above the doorway on the building's facade.

John Berry Titcomb built this house in 1808. Titcomb was a member of Newburyport's wealthier class as is evidenced by the fine detail in his home. John Titcomb served as a selectman for the town of Newburyport in 1800. In that same year, he was also appointed to a committee to consider the laying out of the New Hill Burying Ground. Many of Newburyport's prominent citizens were buried in the New Hill Burying Ground which is now part of Newburyport's Highland Cemetery.

The Ticomb family lived in this house until 1850 when it was sold to John Odin. In 1865, it was purchased by Curtis Raymond in whose family the house remained until well into the twentieth century.