403 Main Street, Hingham, is a late-Victorian antique home, set in the heart of Hingham Center, and it comes with an intriguing history. Built around 1871, this 11-room home has tastefully updated antique features like granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances in the kitchen, a family room with a fireplace, an entertainment-sized dining room, front and back staircases and many other attractive architectural details.
A beautiful bluestone patio leads off the kitchen, the laundry and mudroom is both spacious and convenient, and 10-foot ceilings and antique wide pine floors grace this 3,315 square-foot home. There's an additional 840 square feet in the basement.
Now called the Starkes-Whiton house, this home was built by the treasurer of the Boston & Hingham Steamboat Company in what could only be called, at the time, a daring Gothic Revival style. Nevertheless, it's formal symmetrical floorplan and classical touches in windows and doorways demonstrate the strong hold that traditional local tastes held on Hingham’s citizens.
The home has only been in the hands of four families during its existence. The lot was much larger in 1951, when a new owner sold off what is now town recreational land in the back of the property so he could afford to buy the house and restore it to its original grand stature.
This gracious home has 5 bedrooms, 2 full and one half bathrooms. There are 5 zones of central oil-fired heat delivered by hot-water baseboards. Outside, just off the patio are two outbuildings lead through the 1/2-acre flat lot adjacent town playground, ball fields, town hall and the other attractions of Hingham Center.
Eleanor Roosevelt visited Hingham while preparing This is America, and said that Hingham had the most beautiful Main Street in America. The Starkes-Whiton house is one of the reasons why.
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403 Main Street, Hingham, is being offered for $1,299,000
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