Stephen Barker House

Stephen Barker House is a historic house at 165 Haverhill Street in Methuen, Massachusetts.

Stephen Barker House
Stephen Barker House c. 2008
Stephen Barker House is located in Massachusetts
Stephen Barker House
Stephen Barker House is located in the United States
Stephen Barker House
LocationMethuen, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°42′24″N 71°11′57″W
Built1839
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPSMethuen MRA
NRHP reference No.84002307 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 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]

Stephen Barker Place c 1900.

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.

See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. Gagnon, Dan (2001). "Methuen History.org". Retrieved 2009-05-11.
  3. Radocchia, Jane Griswold (May 20, 1990). "Sunday Drives - Barker Homestead, Woodland St., Methuen, c1830". Eagle Tribune. Retrieved 2009-05-21.


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