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The Adams-Magoun House, built ca. 1783, is a good example of Federal period architecture at 438 Broadway in near Magoun Square in Somerville, Massachusetts. Although built during the Federal period, and showing that influence, the floor plan is traditional four-room Georgian. It is a five-bay, gable roof house and has what is reportedly one of the earliest five-part leaded fanlights in the Boston area.〔 It was built by Joseph Adams in 1783. Adams was married to Sarah Tufts, whose extended family owned large tracts of land in the town, including the tracts which eventually became Tufts University. She was the daughter of Peter and Anne Tufts.〔 Their daughter, Sarah Ann Adams, married John C. Magoun (1797 - 1882), for whom Magoun Square is named.〔Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell. "Somerville", p. 17 ()〕 Magoun was the local Assessor for twenty-eight years and was Captain in the militia at the time of the visit by the Marquis de Lafayette in 1826.〔Biographical sketches of representative citizens of the commonwealth of Massachusetts ... (Google eBook), (Graves & Steinbarger, 1901) pg. 986〕 At the time of Adams' marriage to Magoun, the Adams farm extended from Broadway to the Boston and Maine Railroad, between Central and Lowell streets.〔 It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.〔 ==See also== *National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerville, Massachusetts 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Adams-Magoun House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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