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Peter and Oliver Tufts House

Historic house in Massachusetts, United States

Field	Value
name	Peter and Oliver Tufts House
image	Peter and Oliver Tufts House in Somerville MA USA.jpg
location	78 Sycamore Street,
Somerville, Massachusetts
coordinates
locmapin	Massachusetts#USA
built	c. 1714
architecture	Georgian
added	September 18, 1989
mpsub	Somerville MPS
refnum	89001287

Somerville, Massachusetts

The Peter and Oliver Tufts House (also known as the Peter Tufts House) is a historic house in Somerville, Massachusetts. Built about 1714, it is one of the oldest houses in the city's Winter Hill neighborhood, and was owned in the 19th century by members of the Tufts family responsible for developing the city's brickyards. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

Description and history

The Tufts House is located on the west side of Sycamore Street, a residential street running north–south between Medford Street and Highland Avenue on the southwest side of Winter Hill. The house is a -story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a gambrel roof, two chimneys, and clapboard siding. Its main facade faces east, and is symmetrically arranged, with a center entrance sheltered by an Italianate hood with heavy brackets.

The oldest part of the house was built around 1714. The house "was originally built on Barberry Lane (Highland Ave.)" From 1775 to 1776, the house served as headquarters for General Charles Lee of the Continental Army during the siege of Boston.

Peter Tufts eventually acquired a large parcel of farmland on the south side of Winter Hill. What is now Sycamore Street was originally the drive leading to the house. Peter and Oliver Tufts were, in addition to the farm, involved in establishing some brickyards that were an important business in Somerville in the 19th century.

References

{{NRISref. 2008a
"NRHP nomination for Peter and Oliver Tufts House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
(1937). "Massachusetts: a guide to its places and people". US History Publishers.

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