Stoneholm - Sharon MA
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N 42° 06.924 W 071° 09.942
19T E 320961 N 4664859
Stoneholm was built c.1848, and is a distinctive Victorian house, exhibiting Second Empire and Italianate. Lothop was a founder of the firm of Lothrop and Watson, manufacturers of shoe shanks.
Waymark Code: WM17C0K
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 01/23/2023
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Stoneholm is a historic house in Sharon, Massachusetts. The 2 1/2-story stone house was built c.1848, and is a distinctive Victorian house, exhibiting Second Empire and Italianate details executed in granite from the local Moyles Quarry near Borderland State Park. The House was built for Horace Augustus Lothrop.
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The original owner of Stoneholm, Horace A. Lothrop (1828-1898), was born in Easton, Massachusetts.
In 1870, Lothop was a founder of the firm of Lothrop and Watson, manufacturers of shoe shanks. In 1878, Lothrop established the Niantic Hose company.
Lothrop served as a director of the. Neponset National Bank in Canton, Mass. By 1883, Lothrop was forced by ill health to retire from his business interests.
In addition to his connection to several of Sharon's major industries, Lothrop was active in civic affairs, serving for two terms as a member of the state legislature and as a member of the Sharon School Board. Lothrop also made major donations for the founding of the Sharon Public Library, for the acquisition of a town clock, for the purchase of streetlights, for the planting of shade trees and for other projects inaugurated by the Sharon Improvement Society. Lothrop was one of the incorporators of the Sharon Water Company.
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