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Streets · 6 buildings

Garden Street

Oldest
c. 1897
Built 1860–1900
6

From the state survey

Garden Street

MACRIS NWB.AI · area form, 1980

Garden Street runs from State Street to Otis Place over ground that had been the garden of the Dalton House. The form says it was laid out in 1883 and that nearly every house on it was built within the following twenty years. The survey found no intrusions.

The houses are vernacular and borrow from several styles of 1860–1900. Some, such as 2-4, are simple gable-front forms; 1-3 is a double house with a pedimented gable and walls of clapboard and two kinds of shingles; 6-8 has brackets under the eaves; and most have bay windows.

Early owners ranged from investors to people of moderate means. Insurance agent Charles E. Atkinson owned 2-4 in 1902 while living at 82 High Street. Irwin Besse, secretary of the Victor Manufacturing Company, owned and lived at number 10 in 1889, and clerk William F. Merrill lived at number 1. The form links the street's growth to demand for housing near downtown.

Summarized from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's area form. See the MACRIS record ↗

Odd side

  1. 1–31–3 Garden StreetWilliam F. Merrill Housec. 1897 · Queen Anne
  2. 5–75–7 Garden Streetc. 1897 · Italianate
  3. 9–119–11 Garden Streetc. 1897 · Queen Anne

Even side

  1. 2–42–4 Garden StreetCharles E. Atkinson Housec. 1897 · Italianate
  2. 6–86–8 Garden Streetc. 1897 · Italianate
  3. 1010 Garden StreetIrwin Besse Housec. 1897 · Italianate

Today's street numbers. Buildings without a photo haven't been researched yet: their name, date and style are the state inventory's, or, for a building 75 or more years old the inventory never recorded, the City assessors' year built. Dates marked c. are estimates. Hollow dots are lost buildings. Locations: MassGIS / Massachusetts Historical Commission; assessors' lots: City of Newburyport GIS (MIMAP), the dot in the middle of the lot.