Quincy, Mass. Historical and Architectural Survey

180 Adams Street

HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE
This split level house, the last property in the Quincy Center Local Historic District, was built in 1963 on the site of the Emmonscher-Barbour House which was destroyed by fire in 1959. The original house on the property was built by Nathaniel Henry , whose wife was a niece of Benjamin Beale, in 1836-1840. It was later occupied, during the 1880's and 1890's, by a Thomas Whicher (T. A. Whicher & Co., Boston). In 1923 the property belonged to Perley E. Barbour, president of the Quincy Trust Co.

Number 180 Adams Street is owned by the New England Church of the Nazarene. An evangelical Protestant denomination with its roots in eighteenth century Methodism, the Church's Eastern Nazarene College, at 23 West Elm Avenue, is Quincy's only institute of higher learning granting the bachelor's degree.

BIBLIOGRAPHY and/or REFERENCES
Assessor-s Records.
Building Permit
Atlas of Norfolk county, mass, 1876.
Atlas of the City of Quincy, 1897.
Atlas of the City of Quincy, 1907.
Atlas of the City of Quincy, 1923.
QUINCY City Directories, 1898, 1910, 1922.

ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE:
This split level wood shingled one story house is the last property in the Quincy Center Local Historic District. There has been an unsuccessful attempt to "colonialize" the facade with the use of an applied thin broken Roman pediment over the entrance and tall square posts supporting an awkwardly placed balustrade

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