Leavitt-Hovey House

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location= Greenfield, Massachusetts
lat_degrees = 42
lat_minutes = 35
lat_seconds = 17
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 72
long_minutes = 35
long_seconds = 58
long_direction = W
locmapin = Massachusetts
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built =1797
architect= Benjamin,Asher
architecture= Classical Revival
added = December 22, 1983
governing_body = Local
refnum=83003977cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2008-04-15|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Leavitt-Hovey House is an historic house located at 402 Main Street in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

The house was designed by the noted architect Asher Benjamin in 1797 for Judge Jonathan Leavitt and added to the National Historic Register in 1983. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=Lw0VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA648&lpg=PA648&dq=%22john+hooker+leavitt%22+waterloo&source=web&ots=3D4-tjVa3a&sig=uoloHeDM2kh4AQ2g9wcM606q7ZI&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result#PPA644-IA2,M1 Early photo of Jonathan Leavitt House, Greenfield, Genealogy of the Ancestors and Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Mass., Almira Larkin White, Nichols, Haverhill, 1905] ]

Judge Jonathan Leavitt was a graduate of Yale College. He began his career as an attorney in Greenfield. He later served as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1812, and Judge of Probate from 1814 to 1821, as well as the first president of the Franklin Bank of Greenfield. He used the west wing of the Leavitt House (now the Leavitt-Hovey House) as a wing for his business activities. Judge Leavitt married the daughter of President Ezra Stiles of Yale College. The father of Judge Leavitt was Rev. Jonathan Leavitt, a Yale graduate who was a Congregational minister in Greenfield. Rev. Leavitt's wife was Sarah Hooker, great-granddaughter ot the Rev. Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford, Connecticut.

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