963 Central Ave., Needham, Massachusetts. County/parish: Norfolk.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places February 25, 1988. NRIS 88000160.
2 contributing buildings.
The Israel Whitney House is a historic house in Needham, Massachusetts. It is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house, five bays wide, with a side gable roof and clapboard siding. Its front facade is symmetrical, with a center entrance flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters, and a corniced entablature on top. The house was built in 1830 by Israel Whitney, who had married Mary Fuller, a descendant of one of Needham's early settlers. Whitney had purchased the land on which the house was built in 1829. Whitney was a shoemaker and active in local politics, holding a variety of offices.
In the 1940s, the house was sold to Elizabeth D. Revere, the wife of a distant relative of Paul Revere.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796250