Baldwin House, Woburn, Massachusetts with a stetch of the Middlesex Canal in foreground.

The Baldwin House is a fine Colonial American mansion located at 2 Alfred Street, Woburn, Massachusetts. It is currently a restaurant. The historic 1790 House is very close by, across the Middlesex Canal. Benjamin Thompson House, Woburn, Massachusetts. ... The Middlesex Canal was built in the late 18th century to connect the Merrimack River with the port of Boston. ... remington bloch Starting in the late 16th century, the English began to colonize North America. ... Benjamin Thompson House, Woburn, Massachusetts. ... The 1790 House is a historic house located on at 827 Main Street, North Woburn, Massachusetts, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ... The Middlesex Canal was built in the late 18th century to connect the Merrimack River with the port of Boston. ...

The original Baldwin House was built in 1661 by Henry Baldwin, one of Woburn's first settlers. In 1803 his grandson, noted engineer Col. Loammi Baldwin, greatly enlarged the house to its current form. (This younger Baldwin, known as the Father of American Civil Engineering, created the Middlesex Canal, and lent his named to the Baldwin apple discovered nearby.) At that time its grounds were 212 acres in extent. On the south, between the house and the canal, was formerly a beautiful garden, with walks and trees, superior to anything in the region. All traces have long since disappeared. Colonel Loammi Baldwin was an American politician, noted engineer, surveyor and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War. ... The Middlesex Canal was built in the late 18th century to connect the Merrimack River with the port of Boston. ... Monument to the Baldwin Apple at the site where it was discovered, Wilmington, Massachusetts. ...

All told, six generations of Baldwins lived in the house as documented in John Farmer's Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England: Henry Baldwin from 1661 to 1697; Henry Baldwin, son of the above; then James Baldwin; Loammi Baldwin, son of James, to 1807; he put on a third story. Benjamin F. Baldwin, 1807 to 1822; Loammi, Mary, and Clarissa Baldwin, from 1822 to 1836. George R. Baldwin from 1836 to November, 1887 (or to death, October 11, 1888.) After leaving the family's ownership it became various a boarding house and a restaurant.

The house is nearly cubical in form, three stories tall, with false ashlar front facade and clapboarding elsewhere, full-height pilasters at the corners, and a balustrade above the eaves. The entry door is ornamented with a classic pediment and lights, and further graced by an elegant Palladian window above. Ashlar is dressed stone work of any type of stone. ... In architecture, pilasters comprise slightly-projecting pseudo-columns built into or onto a wall, with capitals and bases. ... A pediment is a classical architectural element consisting of a triangular section or gable found above the horizontal superstructure (entablature) which lies immediately upon the columns. ... Categories: Stub ...

In 1971 the house was moved to its current site, immediately adjacent to the Middlesex Canal, from its original location just west of Main Street at the Route 128 rotary (now commercial sprawl). The Middlesex Canal was built in the late 18th century to connect the Merrimack River with the port of Boston. ... Route 128 is a ring highway with Boston at its center and surrounded by the concentric Interstate 495. ...