Horton Street
MACRIS NWB.AM · area form, 1980
Horton Street, running from Federal Street to Lime Street, is named for Rev. William Horton, rector of St. Paul's church from 1853 to 1863, whose will gave the city money for a new almshouse to replace the old one on Federal Street. The old almshouse was torn down in 1888, the street was laid out across its site, and the rest of the land was cut into house lots and auctioned in 1889.
The typed text says the houses were built soon after the sale. All are two or two-and-a-half stories with Queen Anne or plain Victorian detail: squarish plans, rooflines broken by gables, some clipped, and walls mixing shingles and clapboards. The survey found no intrusions.
Around 1900 the residents were largely upper middle class. One was lawyer Horace A. Bartlett, who opened his Newburyport practice in 1880 and lived at number 10.
Summarized from the Massachusetts Historical Commission's area form. See the MACRIS record ↗
