Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow House

Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Newton, Massachusetts
Coordinates
Built	1887
Architect	Henry Hobson Richardson
Architectural style	Shingle Style
NRHP Reference #	76000266
Added to NRHP	January 1, 1976

The Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow House at 72-80 Ober Road in Newton, Massachusetts is one of the last private residences designed by noted American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. Designed in 1885, the building was built just a few years before Bigelow's death. The house was restored and divided into five condos in the 1980s by the PBS television series This Old House. Some of the original features, including a circular tower, have been preserved. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places at 742 Dedham Street.

Henry Jacob Bigelow was a well-known Boston surgeon and a professor at Harvard Medical College. Bigelow's father, Jacob Bigelow, a co-founder of Harvard Medical College and MIT, was also a noted architect, designing Bigelow Chapel and the George Washington Memorial Tower in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown, Massachusetts.

See also

• Henry Bigelow House, Newton, Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton, Massachusetts