Case's Corner Historic District

Case's Corner is a 190-acre area in the center of Weston, Massachusetts, where Wellesley, School, Ash and Newton Streets meet. It combines houses, barns, school buildings, fields, gardens and woodland, with buildings dating from about 1740 to 1953. Early farmhouses, a late 19th century estate mansion, estate worker housing and turn-of-the-century middle class homes reflect the town's shift from agriculture to suburb. Architectural examples range from Colonial and Federal to Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne and Colonial Revival. A cohesive northern neighborhood of small frame houses gives a village feel. Much of the southern land belonged to the Case family. Marian Case ran Hillcrest Farm and later Hillcrest Gardens, a model farm and school of agriculture that employed local boys and later became a center for display gardens and plant introduction. Specimen trees, a rhododendron garden, an orchard and notable 1913 stone walls survive, along with a 35-acre town field still farmed. The district includes 88 contributing and two noncontributing resources.