Russell House (Andover, Massachusetts)

Russell House
Location28 Rocky Hill Road,
Andover, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°37′5″N 71°7′14″W / 42.61806°N 71.12056°W / 42.61806; -71.12056
Built1805
Architectural styleFederal
MPSTown of Andover MRA
NRHP reference No.82004808[1]
Added to NRHPJune 10, 1982

The Russell House is a historic house in Andover, Massachusetts.

The weatherboarded Federal-style home was built in 1805. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The farm encompasses some 11 acres (4.5 ha).[2] The house and farm were owned by Deacon Joseph Russell, a descendant of Robert Russell, a Scotsman, who emigrated to Massachusetts in the seventeenth century and was the first person buried in Andover's newly created South Parish 'Burying-Yard,' as it was called, in 1710 at age 80.[3] Russell's descendants intermarried with the Holt, Abbott, Marshall, Chandler, Dane and other early Andover settler families. The 'Scotland District' name for that section of Andover derives from Robert Russell's Scottish birthplace,[4] and his subsequent name for his landholding which he called 'Scotland farm.'[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "National Register of Historic Places, Essex County, Massachusetts".
  3. ^ Sarah Loring Bailey (1880). Historical Sketches of Andover. Houghton, Mifflin. p. 512. Retrieved January 2, 2010. robert russell scotland andover.
  4. ^ Sarah Loring Bailey (1880). Historical Sketches of Andover. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston. p. 119. Retrieved January 2, 2010. historical sketches of andover russell bailey.
  5. ^ William Richard Cutter; William Frederick Adams (1910). Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Vol. IV. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York. Retrieved January 2, 2010.

Sources

  • Burke's American Families with British Ancestry: The Lineages of 1,600 Families of British Origin Now Resident in the United States of America, Bernard Burke, Republished by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975, ISBN 0-8063-0662-9


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