National Register of Historic Places nomination, Hoyt–Shedd Estate, 386–396 Andover Street, Lowell (ref. 84002697)
- Creator
- Candace Jenkins and Elizabeth Durfee Hengen, Massachusetts Historical Commission
- Date
- December 1983 (listed May 17, 1984)
- Type
- survey
- Repository
- Massachusetts Historical Commission, MACRIS (NR 84002697); National Park Service
- Locator
- 14 pp.; Items 7 and 8
- Access
- Public; PDF. Reproduced on this site. Read the source · Original at mhc-macris.net
- Rights
- Federal record; public domain.
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The full nomination, 14 pages (PDF, re-rendered for the web). National Register of Historic Places, ref. 84002697 (Massachusetts Historical Commission copy, MACRIS NR 84002697). Federal record (National Register of Historic Places); public domain. This copy is kept on this site so that it stays one click away.
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Statements this record supports
- C-578 — The Hoyt–Shedd Estate at 386–396 Andover Street: Eli W. Hoyt and Freeman B. Shedd, partners in E. W. Hoyt & Co. (Hoyt's German Cologne), built two identical Stick Style houses there in 1874, reportedly designed by a Mr. Wilkins, an out-of-town relative of Mrs. Hoyt; the houses first shared a barn standing between them. About 1884 the estate was relandscaped: the barn was moved to the north side of East Merrimack Street and made a double house, which the 1983 nomination says still stood at 506–508, and two matching Queen Anne carriage houses were built behind the houses by James W. Bennett of Lowell — architect unknown, though the nomination thinks Frederick W. Stickney or Otis A. Merrill likely. The large Stick Style house on the parcel to the east stood until the late 1970s.