Walter K. Foster House

Historic house in Massachusetts, United States

United States historic place

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Walter K. Foster House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Walter K. Foster House
42°28′54″N 71°5′56″W / 42.48167°N 71.09889°W / 42.48167; -71.09889
Built	1870
Architectural style	Italianate
Part of	Central Square Historic District (ID89002277)
MPS	Stoneham MRA
NRHP reference No.	84002616 ^[1]
Added to NRHP	April 13, 1984
Designated CP	January 17, 1990

The Walter K. Foster House is a historic house at 57 Central Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1870, it is one of three surviving Italianate side hall entry houses in Stoneham. Notable features include paneled pilasters on the corners and ornate decorative brackets above them. The doorway is also topped by a heavy decorated hood. Walter Kittredge Foster was an inventor and owner of a pencil sharpener factory.^[2]^[3]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984,^[1] and included in the Central Square Historic District in 1990.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for Walter K. Foster House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved January 25, 2014.
^ Congressional Edition. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1856.

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