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Streets · 39 buildings · 12 with a page

Kent Street

Oldest
c. 1750
Built Before 1775
2
Built 1775–1830
15
Built 1830–1860
12
Built 1860–1900
10

From the state survey

Kent Street

MACRIS NWB.AD · area form, 1980

This streetscape form covers upper Kent Street, numbers 45–59 and 50–58. It gives 1850–1880 as the period, vernacular Victorian as the style, and no major intrusions. According to the form, the houses were built for skilled craftsmen and managers at the Ocean Steam Mills.

Several show Queen Anne elements, and 56 Kent Street is named as an example. 54 Kent Street is the only brick house in the area; its owner and builder, the mason William Tappan, gave it Second Empire features and decorative brickwork. 51 and 53, both built about 1850, share gingerbread carving at the doorways and bargeboards. In 1851 the house carpenter J. B. Reed lived at 53, and Wareham Drake, a machinist, owned 51; by 1872 Drake was a foreman at the mills. The house at 45–47 appears to be an older building moved to the site between 1884 and 1924.

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

Odd side

  1. 77 Kent Streetc. 1800
  2. 99 Kent Streetc. 1775
  3. 15–1715–17 Kent Streetc. 1775
  4. 1919 Kent StreetJohn Dane Housec. 1763 · Georgian
  5. 2121 Kent StreetBoott-Currier Homec. 1800 · Federal
  6. 2727 Kent Streetc. 1800
  7. 2929 Kent Streetc. 1845 · Greek Revival
  8. 31–3331–33 Kent Streetc. 1850 · Greek Revival
  9. 35–3735-37 Kent StreetNorth School Housec. 1805 · Federal
  10. 3939 Kent Streetc. 1800
  11. 45–4745–47 Kent Streetc. 1785 · Colonial
  12. 4949 Kent Streetc. 1875 · Italianate
  13. 5151 Kent Streetc. 1850 · Gothic Revival
  14. 5353 Kent StreetJ.B. Reed Housec. 1850 · Greek Revival
  15. 55–5755–57 Kent Streetc. 1845 · Greek Revival
  16. 5959 Kent Streetc. 1890 · Queen Anne

Even side

  1. 44 Kent Streetc. 1800 · Federal
  2. 66 Kent StreetJohn E. Bailey Housec. 1750 · Federal
  3. 88 Kent StreetJohn Caldwell Housec. 1872 · Second Empire
  4. 10–1210–12 Kent Streetc. 1775
  5. 14–1614-16 Kent StreetCaptain Thomas Morrison Housec. 1775 · Late Georgian
  6. 1818 Kent Streetc. 1875 · Italianate
  7. 2020 Kent Streetc. 1775
  8. 2222 Kent Streetc. 1785
  9. 2424 Kent Streetc. 1845 · Greek Revival
  10. 26–2826–28 Kent StreetCharles Pearson Housec. 1855 · Greek Revival
  11. 3030 Kent Streetc. 1840
  12. 3232 Kent Streetc. 1775
  13. 3434 Kent Streetc. 1775
  14. 3636 Kent Streetc. 1875 · Victorian Eclectic
  15. 3838 Kent StreetWilliam Keyes Housec. 1850 · Late Federalist/Greek Revival
  16. 4040 Kent Streetc. 1850 · Greek Revival
  17. 4848 Kent StreetOcean Mills Carriage Housec. 1880
  18. 5050 Kent Streetc. 1870 · Italianate
  19. 5252 Kent Streetc. 1870 · Italianate
  20. 5454 Kent StreetWilliam Henry Toppan Housec. 1860 · Second Empire
  21. 5656 Kent StreetEdward Payson Russell Housec. 1890 · Queen Anne
  22. 5858 Kent Streetc. 1875 · Italianate
  23. 6262 Kent Streetc. 1850

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.