59 Terrace Avenue

Built c. 1900

The house is significant architecturally because it is asymmetric to an extreme in the Queen Anne style. Its layered features of porch bay, oriel, porte-cochere and varied roofs are characteristic of a heavy reading of the style. The present color scheme of maroon siding with white trim and white shutters, perhaps appropriate for the Colonial Revival style, tends to obscure or confuse the architecturally strong features of the design. The wrought-iron railing on a widow’s walk atop the hipped roof adds to the confusion.

The house is significant historically because it was the home of Samuel Hopkins, who went to work at the Eastern Malleable Iron Company as a bookkeeper and became an officer of the company.

Dana J. Blackwell, interview, August 15, 1986.