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Barnabus Blossom House. / 41.70639°N 71.14861°W / 41.70639; -71.14861. The Barnabus Blossom House is a historic house located at 244 Grove Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. Built in about 1800, it is one of the city's oldest surviving buildings, and significant local example of Federal architecture.
The Highlands Historic District contains a wide variety of mostly residential homes largely built between 1840 and 1925. Just one home, the Church-Tory house (c.1750) at 96 French Street predates the major development of the area. The district also includes North Park, designed by the Olmsted Brothers in the mid-1880s.
The oldest remaining house in Fall River, located on French Street, was built in 1750. On May 25, 1778, during the American Revolutionary War , the Battle of Freetown was fought when about 150 English soldiers, under the command of Major Ayers, sailed up Mount Hope Bay in the night and landed near the mouth of the Quequechan River .
The Borden house at 230 Second Street in 2009. The Lizzie Borden House is notorious for being the home of Lizzie Borden and her family, and it is the location of the 1892 unsolved double murder of Lizzie's father and stepmother Andrew and Abby Borden. [ 1] It is located on 230 Second Street in the city of Fall River, Massachusetts.
Corky Row Historic District is a historic district located in Fall River, Massachusetts bounded by Plymouth Avenue, Interstate-195 and Second Street. The district contains many early multi-family mill tenement houses, along with the Davol Mills, the Tecumseh Mill No. 1 and several commercial properties. Perhaps the most famous property listed ...
83000690 [1] Added to NRHP. February 16, 1983. The William Lindsey House is a historic house located at 373 North Main Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. It was designed by Rhode Island architect Russell Warren in 1844 for William Lindsey, a local merchant. It is one of seven extant monumental temple-fronted Greek Revival houses in Fall River ...
June 15, 1987. Borden Flats Light is a historic lighthouse on the Taunton River in Fall River, Massachusetts, US. [1] [4] [5] It is a tower-on-caisson type known as a sparkplug lighthouse . The light was built in 1881, and added to the National Register of Historic Places as Borden Flats Light Station on June 15, 1987, reference number 87001528.
Description and history. The house was built in about 1750 in the Steep Brook section of the town, which was then still part of Freetown. It was a 21⁄2 -story, wood-framed structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof and clapboard siding. It was one of the only Federal-period with a pedimented doorway that included a half-round fanlight. [2]