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Styles · 69 buildings with a page · 96 more in the state inventory, not yet researched

Georgian

Symmetry arrives: the five-bay front, the centered door and the classical cornice.

Usual dates
1720–1790
In Newburyport
c. 1750–1800
Built Before 1775
33
Built 1775–1830
35
Built 1900–1945
1
94 State Street, Newburyport
An example94 State StreetNathaniel Tracey House1771 · Photo: Biff Bouse

How to recognize it

  1. 01A symmetrical five-bay front with a centered door
  2. 02A door frame with pilasters and a pediment, a hood or a heavy entablature; a rectangular transom above the door
  3. 03A hip, gambrel or pitched roof; twin interior chimneys on the double-pile houses, a central chimney on smaller ones
  4. 0412-over-12 or 9-over-9 sash with thick muntins, the windows spaced evenly and set close to the cornice
  5. 05A dentil or modillion cornice, and quoins at the corners of the grand houses
  6. 06Paneled interiors: raised-panel walls, bolection moldings around the fireplaces

About the style

Georgian houses brought the proportions of English pattern books to the merchant town. The front is strictly symmetrical, five windows wide, with the door in the middle under a transom and a pediment or hood carried on pilasters. The best of them have a hip or gambrel roof, quoins at the corners and a dentil cornice, and the grandest, on High Street, are brick.

Newburyport kept building Georgian houses through the Revolution and a little after, and many were refined rather than replaced: Late Georgian houses shade into the Federal style that followed.

Georgian in Newburyport

151 Merrimac Street, Newburyportc. 1707151 Merrimac StreetOffin Boarman House19 Summer Street, Newburyportc. 172119 Summer StreetBrown-Chase-Knight HouseVernacular Georgian14-16 Beck Street, Newburyportc. 172514-16 Beck StreetElias Todd House1 Spring Street, Newburyportc. 17251 Spring StreetEnoch Stickney House36 Ferry Road, Newburyport174336 Ferry RoadQuaker Meeting House95 State Street, Newburyportc. 174795 State StreetDalton HouseHigh Georgian32 Boardman Street, Newburyportc. 175032 Boardman StreetGorwaiz-Brierly House34 Boardman Street, Newburyportc. 175034 Boardman StreetMichael Morse House8 Coffins Court, Newburyportc. 1750–18008 Coffins CourtCoffin-Woodman House18 Essex Street, Newburyport, in the MACRIS inventory photoc. 175018 Essex StreetAnn G. Tappan House24 Essex Street, Newburyport, in the MACRIS inventory photoc. 175024 Essex StreetCharles Whipple House58 High Street, Newburyportc. 175058 High Street253 High Street, Newburyportc. 1750–1775253 High StreetCaptain C. Tyng House29 Jefferson Street, Newburyportc. 175029 Jefferson StreetJoseph Coffin House62 Middle Street, Newburyportc. 175062 Middle StreetThomas C. Huse House26 Olive Street, Newburyportc. 1750–177526 Olive StreetGeorge Stover House19 Russia Street, Newburyportc. 1750–180019 Russia Street31 Summer Street, Newburyportc. 175031 Summer StreetWilliam Brewster House5 Union Street, Newburyportc. 17505 Union StreetSamuel Kilborn HouseVernacular Georgian241-243 Water Street, Newburyportc. 1750–1775241-243 Water StreetGideon & John Woodwell HouseVernacular Georgian28 Winter Street, Newburyportc. 175028 Winter StreetJohn Harbut House299 High Street, Newburyportc. 1758299 High StreetDr. Enoch Sawyer House19 Kent Street, Newburyportc. 176319 Kent StreetJohn Dane House262 Merrimac Street, Newburyport1765262 Merrimac StreetElijah Pilsbury House66 Federal Street, Newburyportc. 176866 Federal StreetAndrew Hill and Judith Gerrish House18 Washington Street, Newburyportc. 176918 Washington StreetPaul Noyes House350 High Street, Newburyportc. 1770350 High StreetColonel Josiah Little HouseLate Georgian64 Federal Street, Newburyport, in the MACRIS inventory photoc. 177164 Federal StreetDaniel Plumer House201 High Street, Newburyportc. 1771201 High StreetJackson-Dexter HouseHigh Georgian94 State Street, Newburyport177194 State StreetNathaniel Tracey House29 Temple Street, Newburyportc. 177229 Temple StreetCaptain Edward Wigglesworth House203 High Street, Newburyportc. 1774203 High StreetLowell-Tracy-Johnson HouseHigh Georgian262 High Street, Newburyportc. 1774262 High StreetThomas Coker House39-43 Boardman Street, Newburyportc. 177539-43 Boardman StreetLate Georgian264 High Street, Newburyportc. 1775–1800264 High StreetT. Pierce HouseLate Georgian14-16 Kent Street, Newburyportc. 177514-16 Kent StreetCaptain Thomas Morrison HouseLate Georgian92 Lime Street, Newburyportc. 177592 Lime StreetCaleb Norris House8 Market Street, Newburyportc. 1775–18008 Market StreetWilliam B. Atkinson House288 Merrimac Street, Newburyportc. 1775288 Merrimac StreetMace/Whittier House30 Winter Street, Newburyportc. 177530 Winter StreetCalvin H. Danforth House13 Essex Street, Newburyportc. 178013 Essex StreetSarah Kimball HouseLate Georgian17 Federal Street, Newburyportc. 178017 Federal StreetWilliam Pierce Johnson HouseHigh Georgian8–10 Spring Street, Newburyport, in the MACRIS inventory photoc. 17858–10 Spring StreetSamuel Noyes House28 Green Street, a gambrel-roofed Georgian house with three dormersc. 178628 Green StreetBradbury–Spalding HouseLate Georgian4 Dove Street, Newburyportc. 17884 Dove StreetTheodore Pearson House15-17 Essex Street, Newburyportc. 179015-17 Essex StreetDr. Henry C. Perkins HouseLate Georgian27 Fair Street, Newburyport, in the MACRIS inventory photoc. 179027 Fair StreetDr. Richard S. Spofford House3-5 Federal Street, Newburyportc. 17903-5 Federal StreetP. Noyes HouseLate Georgian75 Federal Street, Newburyportc. 179075 Federal StreetAnthony Morse House86-88 Federal Street, Newburyportc. 179086-88 Federal StreetWheelwright-Wills-Richardson House360 High Street, Newburyportc. 1790360 High StreetLittle-Potter HouseLate Georgian280 Merrimac Street, Newburyportc. 1790280 Merrimac Street24 Prospect Street, Newburyportc. 179024 Prospect Street9 Strong Street, Newburyportc. 1790–18039 Strong StreetJoseph Atkins House354 High Street, Newburyportc. 1791354 High StreetOrlando Merrill House43 Federal Street, Newburyportc. 179343 Federal StreetCaptain Nicholas Johnson House266 High Street, Newburyportc. 1795266 High StreetThomas Coker HouseLate Georgian19 Federal Street, Newburyport, in the MACRIS inventory photoc. 179819 Federal StreetWilliam Bartlett House76 Lime Street, Newburyportc. 179876 Lime StreetCaptain Paul Simpson House48 Boardman Street, Newburyportc. 179948 Boardman StreetCaptain James Clarkson HouseLate Georgian87 High Street, Newburyportc. 179987 High StreetGreenleaf-Wood House8-10 Boardman Street, Newburyportc. 18008-10 Boardman StreetRobert Piper House42 Broad Street, Newburyportc. 180042 Broad Street64 Prospect Street, Newburyportc. 180064 Prospect Street65-67 Prospect Street, Newburyportc. 180065-67 Prospect StreetHenry and Abagail Spiller HouseLate Georgian10 Independent Street, Newburyportc. 180210 Independent StreetMoses E. Wheeler House20-22 Merrill Street, Newburyport180520-22 Merrill StreetCapt. Thomas Witham House344 Merrimac Street, Newburyportc. 1805344 Merrimac StreetLevi Carr HouseLate Georgian233 High Street, Newburyportc. 1913233 High Street
Also in the state inventory 96 buildings not yet researched

½–57 Bromfield Street

10–12 Market Street

105–107 Prospect Street

11–13 Ashland Place

11–13 Madison Street

12–14 Milk Street

13–15 Atwood Street

15–17 Olive Street

156–162 Merrimac Street

171–173 High Street

22–24 Market Street

234–236 Water Street

26–28 Washington Street

274–276 Merrimac Street

28–30 Madison Street

3–5 Spring Street

39–41 Temple Street

41–43 Washington Street

48–50 Milk Street

49–51 Milk Street

5–7 Summer Street

53–55 Milk Street

57–59 Marlboro Street

69–71 Prospect Street

70–72 Prospect Street

8–10 Vernon Street

80–82 Federal Street

9–11 Milk Street

Ashland Street

Beck Street

Boardman Street

Bromfield Street

Caldwells Court

Dove Street

Fair Street

Federal Street

Franklin Street

Harrison Street

High Street

Hill Street

Independent Street

Lime Street

Marlboro Street

Merrimac Court

Merrimac Street

Milk Street

Neptune Street

Orange Street

Parker Street

Prospect Street

Purchase Street

Salem Street

Spring Street

State Street

Storey Avenue

Summer Street

Temple Street

Toppan's Lane

Toppans Lane

Turkey Hill Road

Tyng Street

Union Place

Vernon Court

Washington Street

Water Street

Styles are as recorded on each building's page; a building whose page names two styles is listed under the one that fits its date, or under Victorian Eclectic when both are Victorian, with its own wording under its address. Buildings not yet researched show the state inventory's dates and styles. Hollow dots are lost buildings. Locations: MassGIS / Massachusetts Historical Commission.