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Winfield House (Quincy, Massachusetts)

Coordinates: 42°15′43.7″N 71°0′44″W / 42.262139°N 71.01222°W / 42.262139; -71.01222
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Winfield House
Winfield House (Quincy, Massachusetts) is located in Massachusetts
Winfield House (Quincy, Massachusetts)
Winfield House (Quincy, Massachusetts) is located in the United States
Winfield House (Quincy, Massachusetts)
Location853 Hancock St., Quincy, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°15′43.7″N 71°0′44″W / 42.262139°N 71.01222°W / 42.262139; -71.01222
Arealess than one acre
Built1880
Architectural styleQueen Anne
MPSQuincy MRA
NRHP reference No.89001347[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 20, 1989

The Winfield House was a historic house at 853 Hancock Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built c. 1880, it was a 2+12-story wood-frame structure with exuberant Queen Anne styling. It was built by John Chamberlin, a traveling hardware salesman. The house was particularly distinctive for its onion-domed tower near the center of the structure, an unusual placement and topping for such a tower.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

Winfield House served as a restaurant for 50 years. The house was demolished in 1998[2] by its then owners, Eastern Nazarene College, to make way for a campus expansion; all that is left now is stairs leading up to an empty house lot and the elm tree. The carriage house and a portion of the main house floating staircase were moved to a private residence in Stoughton, MA.

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ a b "NRHP nomination and MACRIS inventory record for Winfield House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-09.