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Kistler House

Coordinates: 42°19′50″N 71°12′5″W / 42.33056°N 71.20139°W / 42.33056; -71.20139
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Kistler House
Kistler House is located in Massachusetts
Kistler House
Kistler House is located in the United States
Kistler House
Location945 Beacon St., Newton, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°19′50″N 71°12′5″W / 42.33056°N 71.20139°W / 42.33056; -71.20139
Built1893
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPSNewton MRA
NRHP reference No.86001849 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 04, 1986

The Kistler House is a historic house at 945 Beacon Street in Newton, Massachusetts. The 2+12-story wood-frame house was built in 1893, and is one of Newton Center's most elaborate Colonial Revival houses. It has a veranda that wraps around two sides of the house, although a porch shelters the front facade. The porch is supported by clusters of slender columns, with a projecting central section framing the main entrance, which has leaded glass sidelight windows. A Palladian window stands above the main entrance, and the cornice line is embellished with egg-and-dart moulding, dentil moulding, and a frieze decorated with swags. Andrew Kistler, the owner, was a leather dealer working in Boston.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Kistler House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-16.