Barton Street
MACRIS NWB.AG · area form, 1980
Barton Street was laid out in 1893 by Lewis T. Barton and Richard G. Adams. Their land was cut into thirty-one house lots, which were sold to individual buyers who put up single-family houses. The form notes that Barton owned the Barton Shoe Company and opened a factory on Charter Street in the South End in 1899.
Most of the houses went up around the turn of the 20th century, and the survey dates the street to 1895–1910 with no intrusions. Some are very plain, such as the two-story pitched-roof house at 27 Barton Street. Others carry more detail: 25 Barton Street has an octagonal turret and mixed shingles in the Queen Anne manner, 11 Barton Street is a cottage with a large porch on turned posts and bracketed gable, and 19 Barton Street has a small-paned window surround and a sunburst motif. The recorder saw the street as a good example of middle-class housing of its time.
Summarized from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's area form. See the MACRIS record ↗
