H.L. Higginson House

8-10 Fairfield Street
Boston, Mass.

Year Built: 1879

This building was built in 1879 and is part of the Back Bay Historic District and a National Register Historic District.


Registries

• Local Historical District

• National Register District


References

• Massachusetts Cultural Resources Information System, Massachusetts Historical Commission, Inventory No. BOS.3986 (H.L. Higginson House, 8 Fairfield Street, 1879, Sturgis & Brigham, architects).

• Back Bay Historic District, 9/3/1966.

• Back Bay National Register Historic District, 8/14/1973, National Park Service #73001948.

• “Architecture of H.H. Richardson and His Contemporaries in Boston and Vicinity: 1972 Annual Tour,” Society of Architectural Historians, Philadelphia, 1972, Margaret Henderson Floyd, (Sturgis & Brigham, 1878, 8-10 Fairfield Street, H.L. Higginson House)

• Building Permit, City of Boston, 11/12/1879, #156, Sturgis & Brigham, 8 Fairfield Street.

• Building Permit, City of Boston, 11/12/1879, #154, Sturgis & Brigham, 8 Fairfield Street.


Images


2010, detail of window and surround on Fairfield Street facade


2010, projecting bay, Fairfield Street facade


2010, detail of window and surround on Alley facade


ca.2010


ca.2010


2007


2007


2007



2010, Fairfield Street facade


2010, Fairfield Street facade

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