Calvin Coolidge House
Calvin Coolidge House | |
Calvin Coolidge House, September 2012 | |
42°19′29″N 72°38′49″W / 42.32472°N 72.64694°W / 42.32472; -72.64694 | |
Area | less than one acre |
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Built | 1900-1901 |
Architect | J.W. O'Brian |
NRHP reference No. | 76000262[1] |
Added to NRHP | December 12, 1976 |
The Calvin Coolidge House is a historic house located at 19-21 Massasoit Street in Northampton, Massachusetts. Built in 1901, it is most historically significant as the home of the 30th president of the United States, Calvin Coolidge between 1906 and 1930, the height of his political career. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 12, 1976.[1]
Description and history
The Calvin Coolidge House is located in a quiet residential area west of downtown Northampton, on the east side of Massasoit Street near its junction with Arlington Street. It is an architecturally undistinguished 2+1⁄2-story two-family wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Stylistically it is basically Colonial Revival, with projecting sections to the rear of each unit, and different porch treatments on each side. The Coolidge unit, on the left, has a gable-roofed porch supported by round columns, extending partly in front of a project polygonal bay window. The interior also has some Colonial Revival features, including a fireplace in the front parlor with flanking Doric pilasters.[2]
The house was built in 1900-01 by J.W. O'Brian, and its left side was rented in 1905 by Calvin Coolidge. The Coolidges occupied that unit until 1930. This period of occupancy coincides with Coolidge's political rise from city council to Governor of Massachusetts, then Vice President and President.[3] This property is one of the most unusual of those occupied by a US president on a long-term basis, in that he did not own it, and that it was a duplex.[2] In 1930, Coolidge moved to "The Beeches" at 16 Hampton Terrace in Northampton,[4] a move he said was necessitated by the increasing number of tourists coming to this address and the attendant lack of privacy.
See also
- Coolidge Homestead, his birthplace
- Calvin Coolidge Bridge, carrying Route 9 between Northampton and Hadley
- List of residences of presidents of the United States
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Hampshire County, Massachusetts
- Presidential memorials in the United States
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b "NRHP nomination for Calvin Coolidge House". National Archive. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Calvin Coolidge House (Massasoit Street)". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for The Beeches". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-18.
External links
Media related to Calvin Coolidge House at Wikimedia Commons
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- Calvin Coolidge House
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- Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Massachusetts
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- First inauguration
- Second inauguration
- Industry and trade
- Taxation (Revenue Act of 1924, Revenue Act of 1926, Revenue Act of 1928)
- Allegheny National Forest
- Civil rights (Indian Citizenship Act of 1924)
- Immigration Act of 1924
- Clarke–McNary Act
- Oil Pollution Act of 1924
- World War Adjusted Compensation Act (1924)
- Opposition to farm subsidies (McNary–Haugen Farm Relief Bill)
- Judiciary Act of 1925
- Federal Corrupt Practices Act Amendments of 1925
- Railway Labor Act
- Passport Act of 1926
- Flood control (Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, Flood Control Act of 1928)
- State of the Union Addresses (1926
- 1927)
- "I do not choose to run" (1927)
- Radio Act of 1927
- McFadden Act (1927)
- Brave Little State of Vermont speech (1928)
- McSweeney-McNary Act of 1928
- Migratory Bird Conservation Act
- Reed–Jenkins Act
- Foreign policy (Banana Wars, United States occupation of Nicaragua (1912–1933), United States occupation of Haiti (1915–1934), United States occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924), Washington Naval Treaty (1922), Kellogg–Briand Pact (1928)
- Presidential transition of Herbert Hoover
- Cabinet
- Judicial appointments
- Things named after Coolidge
- Sesquicentennial half dollar
- U.S. postage stamps
- Coolidge effect
- SS President Coolidge
- Backstairs at the White House (1979 miniseries)
- Grace Coolidge (wife)
- John Coolidge (son)
- John Calvin Coolidge Sr. (father)
- Calvin Galusha Coolidge (grandfather)
- Arthur Brown, Olympia Brown, Charles A. Coolidge (cousins)
- Marcus A. Coolidge, Arthur W. Coolidge, Martha Coolidge, Carlos Coolidge (distant relations)
- Edmund Rice (ancestor)
- Rob Roy (family dog)
- Rebecca (pet raccoon)