Stephen Barker House
Historic house in Massachusetts, United States
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Stephen Barker House is a historic house at 165 Haverhill Street in Methuen, Massachusetts.
Stephen Barker House | |
Stephen Barker House c. 2008 | |
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| Location | Methuen, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°42′24″N 71°11′57″W |
| Built | 1839 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| MPS | Methuen MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 84002307 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 20, 1984 |
Built in 1839, it is one of several handsome houses built at the periphery of the Methuen settlement in the mid-19th Century, and remains a well conserved "country Residence". Reportedly, surveyor Stephen Barker built "Woodland Cottage" in imitation of antebellum mansions he had seen in the South.[2]
Barker, from one of Methuen's original families, had gone to seek his fortune in Tennessee and sent home enough money to build a house. The old farm house was moved and on its site was built this imitation of a Southern mansion. The details of the house, such as the entrance, the Doric columns and frieze board above, classify it as Greek Revival. The builder freely adapted traditional elements: rows of dormers, triangular windows in the gable end, and railing above the porch mimicking gingerbread fretwork.[3]
It was added to the National Historic Register in 1984.