George Clapp House

George Clapp House
Location 44 North St., Grafton, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°12′43″N 71°40′51″W / 42.21194°N 71.68083°W / 42.21194; -71.68083Coordinates: 42°12′43″N 71°40′51″W / 42.21194°N 71.68083°W / 42.21194; -71.68083
Built 1835
Architect Clapp, George
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 97000919 [1]
Added to NRHP August 21, 1997

The George Clapp House is a historic house at 44 North Street in Grafton, Massachusetts. Built about 1835, it is the town's only significant example of high-style Greek Revival architecture, with temple treatment on both the front and one side. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.[1]

Description and history

The Clapp House is located in central Grafton, a short way northeast of the town center, at the northeast corner of North Street and Merriam Road. It is a  2 1⁄2-story wood frame structure, three bays wide and five deep, with a front-facing gable roof, finished with flushboarding on the west (front) and south sides, and clapboard siding elsewhere. Its high-style Greek Revival treatment consists of four fluted Doric columns supporting an entablature and the fully pedimented gable in front, and six extending in a colonnade on the south side. A pair of sash windows are set in the center of the gable end. The front facade behind the columns has original tall windows on both floors, with the entrance set in the leftmost bay. The building is joined to a 19th-century barn by a series of ells. The interior retains most of its original finish and hardware, including small fireplaces, ceramic doorknobs, and wide pine flooring.[2]

The house was built c. 1835 by George Clapp, a locally prominent builder of Greek Revival houses. It is the only high-style building of its type in Grafton. Clapp has been attributed with the construction of at least seven other Greek Revival houses, mainly near his first Grafton home on South Street. Clapp's family resided in this house until 1845.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination and MACRIS inventory record for George Clapp House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
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