House at 2212 Commonwealth Avenue

House at 2212 Commonwealth Avenue is a historic house at 2212 Commonwealth Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts.

It was built in 1845 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Famous quotes containing the words house, commonwealth and/or avenue:

    Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Only in America ... do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles—and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech—look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.
    Philip Roth (b. 1933)