Homer House | |
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General information | |
Architectural style | Mansarded Italianate |
Address | 661 Pleasant Street, Belmont, Massachusetts, US |
Coordinates | 42°23′50″N 71°10′40.7″W / 42.39722°N 71.177972°W |
Year(s) built | 1853 |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 3 |
Grounds | 54,854 square feet (5,096.1 m2) |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 15 |
Homer House, or the William Flagg Homer House, is a historic house on Pleasant Street in Belmont, Massachusetts, United States, built in 1853 by a wealthy Boston merchant, and used by his nephew, artist Winslow Homer, as the setting of several of his works. It serves as the headquarters of the Belmont Woman's Club which bought it in 1927 to save it from demolition. The club uses the house as the setting of many of its community events, while the club and its members act as the house's stewards, preserving and restoring it. In 1979 Homer House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Belmont Pleasant Street Historic District.