Newton Village Center Historic District: Roughly Washington St. from Putnam to Davis Ct. (added March 16, 1990) West Parish Burying Ground: River and Cherry Sts. (added December 13, 2004) Windsor Road Historic District: Windsor and Kent Rds. (added March 16, 1990) Fourteen of these are pictured below. Notable people Mitch Albom, author Isaac Asimov, science fiction author of I, Robot Sheldon Brown, bicycle mechanic and technical authority Richard B. Carter native and lifelong resident of West Newton, head of Carter's Ink Company from 1905 to 1949, lived at 11 Forest Ave. WN Matt Damon, actor, first made famous from Good Will Hunting Bette Davis Joe DeNucci Ralph Waldo Emerson Mickey Fisher (1904/05–1963), basketball coach Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, and Rose Hawthorne Steven Hyman, neuroscientist and Provost of Harvard University Julian Jaynes, psychologist, professor, writer John Krasinski Timothy Leary, Harvard professor and LSD researcher Matt LeBlanc, actor most widely known as Joey in Friends Jack Lemmon Mark Mahoney, tattoo artist, owner of Shamrock Social Club in Los Angeles, whose celebrity clients include Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie David Mamet, playwright, screenwriter and film director Mark Mancuso, meteorologist The Weather Channel (United States) Horace Mann Olga C. Nardone, Wizard Of Oz Munchkin "1939" (Villager, SleepyHead, Middle Lullaby League) 6/8/1921—9/24/2010 10 Bellevue Street Don Nottebart, MLB player Cyrus Peirce, for whom Peirce School is named Osgood Perkins, actor, father of Anthony Perkins Rebecca Pidgeon, film actress who is married to David Mamet Seth Putnam, leader from noisecore band Anal Cunt Morrie Schwartz, subject of the best-selling book Tuesdays With Morrie Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin Edward Wagenknecht, American literary critic, prolific writer and BU professor lived on Otis Street, WN Frank E. Winsor, for whom Winsor Dam is named, lived at 189 Mt. Vernon St. WN Howard Zinn External links History of Newton Villages Historic postcard of Brae Burn Country Club WN Historic postcard of West Newton Railway Station which was destroyed when the Turnpike came through Villages in Newton, Massachusetts Villages in Massachusetts