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Streets · 27 buildings · 5 with a page

Temple Street

Oldest
c. 1726
Built Before 1775
6
Built 1775–1830
10
Built 1830–1860
7
Built 1860–1900
3
Built Since 1945
1

From the state survey

Temple St.

MACRIS NWB.Z · area form, 1973

Temple Street begins at State Street and crosses Fair Street. The survey states that the selectmen laid out the way, and the inhabitants accepted it, in March 1774, under the name it still carries, and that it was probably a private way for some years before.

The three-story gambrel house at 10 Temple Street was built in 1726 by the Rev. John Lowell on the site of the Nathaniel Tracy House, now the Public Library, and was later moved to Temple Street. The First Baptist Society met in a building on the street called the Tabernacle from 1805 to 1807; it was declared unsafe and razed in 1815.

From 1812 to 1814 Prince Stetson kept a tavern in a house at the corner of Temple and State Streets. A meeting house on Temple Street held the memorial service for President William Henry Harrison on 3 May 1841. The gambrel house at the corner of Temple and Fair Streets belonged to Col. Wigglesworth in 1865.

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

Odd side

  1. 11 Temple Streetc. 1811 · Federal
  2. 3–53–5 Temple Streetc. 1875 · Italianate
  3. 23–2723–27 Temple Streetc. 1975
  4. 2929 Temple StreetCaptain Edward Wigglesworth Housec. 1772 · Georgian
  5. 33–3533–35 Temple StreetTimothy Knapp Housec. 1750 · Colonial
  6. 3737 Temple StreetCapt. Samuel Knapp Housec. 1810 · Federal
  7. 39–4139–41 Temple StreetIsaac C. Clement Housec. 1750 · Georgian
  8. 4545 Temple StreetHamilton Haynes Housec. 1780 · Georgian
  9. 47–4947–49 Temple Streetc. 1815 · Federal
  10. 5151 Temple Streetc. 1800 · Side-hall Italianate

Even side

  1. 6–86–8 Temple StreetDavid Wood Housec. 1845 · Federal
  2. 10–1210–12 Temple StreetJohn Lowell Housec. 1726 · Colonial
  3. 14–1614–16 Temple Streetc. 1845 · Greek Revival
  4. 18–2018–20 Temple StreetSamuel Kettell Housec. 1750 · Colonial
  5. 2222 Temple Streetc. 1800 · Colonial
  6. 2424 Temple StreetHannah Carr Housec. 1845 · Greek Revival
  7. 2828 Temple StreetAbraham Edwards Housec. 1850 · Federal
  8. 3030 Temple Streetc. 1875 · Italianate
  9. 32–3432–34 Temple StreetJoseph Moody–Samuel B. Noyes Housec. 1810 · Federal
  10. 36–3836–38 Temple Streetc. 1890 · Queen Anne
  11. 4040 Temple StreetWilliam Moore Housec. 1800 · Federal
  12. 4242 Temple StreetMary Knapp Housec. 1800 · Federal
  13. 44–4644–46 Temple StreetHarriet Cummings Housec. 1855 · Greek Revival
  14. 48–5048–50 Temple StreetHenry W. Kinsman–John Downer Housec. 1850 · Greek Revival
  15. 52–5452–54 Temple StreetHorace W. Bartlett Housec. 1750 · Colonial
  16. 5656 Temple Streetc. 1845 · Greek Revival
  17. 5858 Temple Streetc. 1800

Walking tours on Temple Street

Federal, Spring and Middle Streets

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.