Farlow and Kendrick Parks Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Eight houses along Park Street, at the southern end of Kenrick Park in Newton Corner, were added to an existing historic district after a 1983 survey found them to be a significant cluster of earlier unsurveyed buildings. Dating from 1830 to 1896, they show the range of nineteenth-century residential styles: a temple-front Greek Revival house with Doric columns at 237 Park Street, a pattern-book Gothic house from 1865, an elaborate Queen Anne house with a red sandstone first story, and a formal brick Georgian Revival house from 1896. The street was laid out on part of George Lord's estate, and large suburban houses were built after the estate was sold following his death in 1893. Scale and setback remain uniform, and the block keeps its residential character. The area was added because it reflects Newton's growth as a fashionable streetcar-era suburb and the quality of its architecture.