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Streets · 12 buildings · 4 with a page

Parsons Street

Oldest
c. 1800
Built 1775–1830
4
Built 1830–1860
7
Built 1860–1900
1

From the state survey

Parsons Street

MACRIS NWB.AJ · area form, 1980

Parsons Street, between High Street and Prospect Street, was laid out early in the 19th century, but most of its houses were built in the middle decades of that century and are Greek Revival. The survey found no intrusions. Residents included tradesmen, mill agents and shopkeepers.

The odd-numbered side is all Greek Revival: plain two-and-a-half-story houses with gable ends to the street, bold cornerboards and doorways framed by Doric pilasters, some later fitted with turned brackets. Residents on this side included Aaron B. Adams, paymaster at the Bartlet Mills, at number 13, carpenter John E. Nutter at number 5 and shoemaker Robert H. Knapp at number 15.

The even side holds older houses. Numbers 4 and 10-12 are three-story Federal houses with hipped roofs and smaller windows on the upper floors; their entrances were later changed. In 1851 Captain William LeCraw lived at number 4.

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

Odd side

  1. 11 Parsons Streetc. 1825 · Federal
  2. 33 Parsons StreetStephen Bartlett Housec. 1855 · Greek Revival
  3. 5–75–7 Parsons StreetJohn T. Nutter Housec. 1855 · Greek Revival
  4. 99 Parsons StreetC. Knapp Housec. 1845 · Greek Revival
  5. 1111 Parsons Streetc. 1845 · Greek Revival
  6. 1313 Parsons Streetc. 1845 · Greek Revival
  7. 1515 Parsons Streetc. 1855 · Greek Revival
  8. 15–1715–17 Parsons Streetc. 1855 · Greek Revival

Even side

  1. 44 Parsons StreetThomas Cook Housec. 1809 · Federal
  2. 6–86–8 Parsons StreetEnoch Smith Housec. 1875 · Italianate
  3. 10–1210–12 Parsons Streetc. 1800 · Federal
  4. 1414 Parsons Streetc. 1800 · Federal

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.