Holliston, MA SOLD                                                
                                                          
                                       
                                                      
                                                                         
                      Price: $479,900
                      Beds: 4
                      Baths: 2
                      Condition: excellent
                      Year Built: 1727
                      Land Area: < 1 Acre                                                         
                 
                  Architectural Style : Georgian
                  House Form: 2-Story Colonial
                  Features: Twin fireplaced parlors, two fireplaced bedrooms, indoor well,
                          beehive oven, attached barn, early brick patios, perennial & herb gardens                    
                  Exterior: Clapboard
                  Agent Name: Mary L.Chabot
                  Company Name: Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
                  Telephone: 508 943 5880                   
                  Email: Mary.Chabot@NEMoves.com

         Welcome to The Simeon Newton House, a wonderful museum quality Georgian Colonial. 
You will realize you are living in an authentic antique house with all the historic details,
warmth, character and charm. Built in 1727, this home is one of the three oldest properties                                                     
in Holliston, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. This wonderful dwelling has 
the features of the Georgian era with some Federal updating with wide pine floors, early 
hardware, windows and doors. The home is decorated with reproductions of early stencilling
including those used in a mural done by the current owner on the second floor. Also seen in 
the house are sponged floors and ceilings in several rooms, a treatment which predated 
commercial floor coverings.
	
         Entering through the front door, you see the captain’s stair leading to the second floor. 
According to a survey done for SPNEA in 1976, the family room to the left was the 
first kitchen in the home with the original fireplace and beehive oven. The room was 
remodeled during the Federal period (1780-1825) and has many trim details from
that era, as you will find often in the house. Beyond the sitting room is the dining room 
with a small library ell. The modern kitchen has a huge early fireplace for cooking. 
Also off the dining room is the brick floored summer kitchen, and the original indoor well. 
To the right of the main entrance, find the parlor which has a third fireplace, featuring early 
to mid 18th century panelling and a hidden safe. It is painted in the Prussian blue discovered 
beneath layers of paint. The office, which was the original Buttery, complete the first level 
of this home.

         The second floor, accessed by either the captain’s stair or the back stair, has four 
bedrooms, 2 fireplaces and a full bath, as well as the walk-up attic and access to the hidden 
room which was used as part of the Underground Railroad to shelter runaway slaves on their 
way to freedom.         
                
         The small corner lot has lovely perennial and herb gardens as well as an attached early 
barn/garage with storage above and Federal period brick patios.