{"nrhp_refnum":"86001872","name":"Riley, Charles, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"93 Bellevue St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newton","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.35164612900007,"lon":-71.19025121699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Neo-Classical dwelling at 93 Bellevue Street in Newton Corner, Newton, Massachusetts, built in 1881 on the Mount Ida hillside with a companion carriage house at 109 Bellevue Street. The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The house is presented as one of Newton's best examples of early twentieth-century Neo-Classical design, with geometric massing, light brick walls and minimal ornament. It is also described as one of the finest remaining lavish suburban estates built by wealthy Boston businessmen in Newton Corner around the turn of the century.","narrative":"Set on the Mount Ida hillside in Newton Corner, this house at 93 Bellevue Street began as a late-1870s dwelling built by Boston businessman Job Turner, with a hip roof and tall facade bays topped by steep pyramidal caps. Charles Riley, a wealthy manufacturer of cotton machinery, bought it in 1888 and shortly before 1900 removed the tower-like caps, added a porte-cochere, and clad the building in cream-colored brick and stone. The result is a blocky, upright Neo-Classical house under a hip roof, with smooth wall surfaces, little ornament, and banks of ground-floor windows meant to bring in more light. Its design rejected the picturesque detail of the Queen Anne style. The property is regarded as one of Newton's finest Neo-Classical buildings and a surviving example of the large suburban estates favored by wealthy Boston commuters. A five-bay carriage house at 109 Bellevue Street, now condominiums, stands as a companion building.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architect unknown; original house built by Job Turner (per the form); remodelled by Charles Riley","architectural_style":"Neo-Classical","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition listed as excellent; present use is a dwelling, and the carriage house has been converted to residential condominiums.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.242753-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/7914/63791442/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/86001872.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001872/a1e7f79ed0-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001872/a1e7f79ed0-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Thomas Kelley from Boston, MA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Riley_House,_Newton,_Massachusetts.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Kelley from Boston, MA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Riley_House,_Newton,_Massachusetts.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791442","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Riley_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5082061"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/riley-charles-house-86001872/"}