Thomas A. Crimmins House
building in Massachusetts, United States
The Thomas A. Crimmins House is a historic house at 19 Dartmouth Street in Newton, Massachusetts. The 2+1⁄2-story brick house was built in 1910–11, and is one of the city's finest Georgian Revival houses. The roughly square house has a slate hip roof with a modillioned cornice, and the corners have brick quoins. The facade facing Commonwealth Avenue has symmetrical projecting end bays flanking a center entry with monumental Tuscan columns.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as building in Massachusetts, United States. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7786856. Authority coordinates are 42.339, -71.227. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910 and 1990.
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