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Frank W. Crane House

historic house in Massachusetts, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ5490135 ↗
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The Frank W. Crane House is a historic house at 11 Avon Way in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1902, on President's Hill, an affluent residential development made on land formerly part of the Adams family estate. It is a graceful Colonial Revival house, with a symmetrical three-bay facade. The front entry is sheltered by a portico, supported by doubled Doric columns, and is topped by a low balcony with urn-shaped balusters.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1902, 1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Frank, Crane and House can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5490135. Authority coordinates are 42.251, -71.008. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1902 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Frank W. Crane House” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.