One Howland Terrace, 1910, Nathaniel C. Smith

One Howland Terrace, Nathaniel C. Smith, 1910, Craftsman’s Style

Designed by and built in 1910 for noted New Bedford architect, Nathaniel C. Smith, this residence is an early Foursquare style. The shingled wall covering is broken by a string course on every third row of the first floor, while a wider string course separates the two stories. Ornate shutters are found on the multi-paned windows. Nathaniel C. Smith, born in New Bedford in 1866, attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1889. Smith’s designs include the New Bedford Textile School, built in three stages in 1893, 1898 and 1901, the Dunbar School on Dartmouth Street, the Fall River YMCA, the Brockton Public Library, the “Studio” for the Swain School (now incorporated into the Kennedy-Donovan Center), and dozens of homes in New Bedford.