Houses and mansions in Waltham
This tour visits places the Register records as dwellings, among them single houses, rowhouses and mansions. Many are private homes and the stops are meant to be seen from the sidewalk. More of the Waltham register is houses than any other kind of building, 54 listings of it in all.
The stops that carry a construction date run from 1776 to 1891. 13 stops, 1.7 miles end to end.
Distances are straight lines between the coordinates in the National Park Service Register data, so the walk on the street will be longer. Nobody has walked or checked this as a route, and a listing does not mean a place is open to visitors. Stops last changed Sep 18, 2026.
Map
Coordinates come from the National Park Service National Register spatial data. The solid line joins the stops in walking order and is not a street route. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Walking order
- 1Edwin C. Johnson House8 Caldwell Rd.Building · built 1840 · listed 1989start
- 2Nelson F. Libby House147--149 Weston St.Building · built 1891 · listed 19890.1 mi from stop 1
- 3Nathan Warren House50 Weston St.Building · built 1840 · listed 1990469 ft from stop 2
- 4Gale--Banks House935 Main St.Building · built 1798 · listed 19900.2 mi from stop 3
- 5Prospect House11 Hammond St.Building · built 1839 · listed 19890.2 mi from stop 4
- 6Francis Buttrick House44 Harvard St.Building · built 1852 · listed 19890.2 mi from stop 5
- 7Benjamin F. Clough House42 Prospect St.Building · built 1855 · listed 19890.2 mi from stop 6
- 8Hall, Henry C., House107 Crescent St.Building · built 1870 · listed 19890.3 mi from stop 7
- 9Gilbert Colburn House110--112 Crescent St.Building · built 1870 · listed 198932 ft from stop 8
- 10Henry N. Fisher House120 Crescent St.Building · built 1877 · listed 1989222 ft from stop 9
- 11Robert Murray House85 Crescent St.Building · built 1857 · listed 1989475 ft from stop 10
- 12Charles Baker House107 Adams St.Building · built 1871 · listed 19890.2 mi from stop 11
- 13Fuller--Bemis House119 Adams St.Building · built 1776 · listed 1990145 ft from stop 12
1.7 straight-line miles over 12 legs. Printed from registeratlas.com/tours/ma/waltham/function-houses/
Taking it along
- Download the route as GPXFor a handheld GPS or a phone app
- Open all 13 stops in Google MapsSet the mode to walking once it opens
- Open the first stop in Apple MapsThe Apple Maps web link carries one destination, so this is stop 1 only
Other walks in Waltham
- Renaissance Revival houses in Waltham10 stops · 1.8 milesRenaissance Revival draws on the Italian palazzo, with a rusticated ground floor, round arched windows and a strong horizontal cornice. The Waltham examples on this route went up between 1800 and 1915.
- Greek Revival houses in Waltham12 stops · 2.2 milesGreek Revival buildings carry low pitched gables, heavy cornices and columned porticoes modelled on Greek temples. The Waltham examples on this route went up between 1831 and 1855.
- Queen Anne houses in Waltham10 stops · 2.4 milesQueen Anne is a late Victorian manner of irregular plans, steep roofs, turrets, bay windows and wrapping porches. The Waltham examples on this route went up between 1877 and 1893.
- Waltham in the 1890s10 stops · 2.0 milesEvery stop carries a construction date in the 1890s. Queen Anne style is the style recorded on more of them than any other.