High Rock Tower-High Rock Cottage and Daisy Cottage
The National Park Service has not published a boundary polygon for this district; the map shows the listed properties inside it and the district's reference point.
Why it's listed
High Rock, a hill rising 170 feet in Lynn, Massachusetts, holds a small group of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century buildings on about four and a half acres. They include a square granite observation tower of 1904, designed by H.K. Wheeler and C. Betton, and two cottages begun around 1847 by the Hutchinson family. High Rock Cottage is built of local porphyry with granite trim in the Gothic Revival style; Daisy Cottage is a wooden house with pointed-arch windows and label mouldings. An 1892 three-and-a-half-story house at 30 Johns Avenue is also included, along with High Rock Park. The Hutchinson Family Singers lived here and performed at rallies for temperance, abolition and women's suffrage. John Hutchinson built an auditorium on the property in 1892 and later gave the summit to the city for an observatory. The earlier tower of 1847-48 was burned by vandals after the fall of Richmond, and the present tower replaced it.
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| Period of significance | 1800-1899 |
|---|---|
| Styles | Gothic Revival (cottages); Romanesque Revival (tower) |
| Areas of significance | Architecture, Social History |
| Acreage | 4.3 |
| Boundary source | not published |
| Full listing page | High Rock Tower-High Rock Cottage and Daisy Cottage (property record) |
What listing means for this property
This is a historic district. Buildings within its boundary are either contributing (they add to the district's significance) or non-contributing. Owners of contributing income-producing buildings can claim the 20% federal rehabilitation tax credit; homeowners should look at state credits. National Register districts impose no design review by themselves; a local historic district ordinance, if one exists, does (the difference explained).
General information, not legal or tax advice. Rules change; confirm with your State Historic Preservation Office or a qualified adviser.