Louis Marx Residence

 residence, abandoned / shut down, historical layer / disappeared object, Colonial Revival (architecture)

Residence built c. 1903 in the Colonial Revival style for Charles Hershon. It features a monumental portico/porte- cochère with massive Ionic columns; an entrance with fluted Doric columns topped by a balustrade; Palladian windows; stone keystones; a modillioned cornice; a hip roof with peak-roofed dormers with “Gothic” sash; and brick chimneys. Bowed bays on the rear façade are reminiscent of the early eighteenth-century Gore Place in Waltham, Massachusetts, evidence of the use of an actual Colonial-era building as a model.

The house may have been built for Charles Hershon, but is more closely associated with Louis Marx, known as the father of the modern American toy industry. It was later abandoned and demolished after 2012.