Israel Whitney House

The Israel Whitney House is a historic house in Needham, Massachusetts. It is a ​2 1⁄2-story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and clapboard siding. Its front facade is symmetrical, with a center entrance flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and a corniced entablature on top. The house was built in 1830 by Israel Whitney, who had married Mary Fuller, a descendant of one of Needham's early settlers. Whitney had purchased the land on which the house was built in 1829. Whitney was a shoemaker and active in local politics, holding a variety of offices.[2]

Israel Whitney House
Location963 Central Avenue,
Needham, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°17′16″N 71°15′8″W
Built1830
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Federal
NRHP reference No.88000160[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 25, 1988

In the 1940s, the house was sold to Elizabeth D. Revere, the wife of a distant relative of Paul Revere.[3]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for Israel Whitney House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-01.
  3. "The History of Needham". www2.needham.k12.ma.us. Retrieved 2020-06-22.


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