Jonathan Belcher House

The Jonathan Belcher house is located at 360 North Main Street, Randolph, MA. This federal style house was built in 1806 by Jonathan Belcher and his wife Abigail, who had been married on April 12, 1792. Their son, also named Jonathan, married Hannah and later added to the house. Jonathan and Hannah's granddaughter, Abigail Tower Tarbell, gave the house to The Ladies Library Association in 1911; the Association later changed its name to the Randolph Womens Club, whose home it is today. The house is used for weddings and other events and is occasionally open to the public.

The house was the first library in Randolph, and the Ladies Library Association's first collection of books is still maintained in an upstairs bedroom.

In 2013, the Randolph Women's Club performed a complete, historically accurate exterior restoration of the house, going through 12 layers of old paint to reach the original color in this photograph. The Jonathan Belcher house is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Randolph (MA) Historical Society. Uploaded by Lynn Feingold