9 Toxteth St., Brookline, Massachusetts. County/parish: Norfolk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 17, 1985. NRIS 85003249.
1 contributing building.
The William Ingersoll Bowditch House is a historic house at 9 Toxteth Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. It is a good example of vernacular Gothic and Greek Revival architecture, built c. 1844-45 as part of one of Brookline's earliest formal residential subdivisions. William Bowditch, the first owner, was an active abolitionist who sheltered fugitive slaves as part of the Underground Railroad, and was a member of the Boston Vigilance Committee. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792640