Williams, N.S., House - Taunton MA
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N 41° 52.794 W 071° 00.154
19T E 333836 N 4638380
The N.S. Williams House is a 2 1/2-story cross-gabled Italianate style house was built circa 1855 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Waymark Code: WM17C5A
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 01/24/2023
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The N.S. Williams House is a historic house located at 1150 Middleboro Avenue in East Taunton part of Taunton, Massachusetts. The 2 1/2-story cross-gabled Italianate style house was built circa 1855 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The house was built by Nathan Sumner Williams as a gift to his wife Caroline Thompson Richard. Williams ran a boxboard and sawmill located across the street at "Kings Furnace" in what is currently the Massasoit State Park. The house boasts 4,200 square feet of living space and is over 7,000 square feet overall. It is a post and beam framed structure with a granite foundation. The wrap around front porch and built up window and door pediments define the Victorian Italianate distinction.
In November 1903 Mr Williams died and the house was sold to Ed Whitney, an antique dealer. The house became known as the "Maples Inn". Because the home overlooked the major road leading into Taunton from Cape Cod, it was an ideal location for stage coaches to stop for the night. From 1950 until the middle of the 1960s a family by the name of Simmons had acquired the home. The Simmons ran an upscale nursing home at the location for fifteen years.
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