Isaac Melvin House

Isaac Melvin House
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′11″N 71°6′34″W / 42.36972°N 71.10944°W / 42.36972; -71.10944Coordinates: 42°22′11″N 71°6′34″W / 42.36972°N 71.10944°W / 42.36972; -71.10944
Built 1842
Architect Isaac Melvin; Oliver Woods
Architectural style Greek Revival, Italianate
MPS Cambridge MRA
NRHP Reference #

82001962

[1]
Added to NRHP April 13, 1982

The Isaac Melvin House is an historic house at 19 Centre Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This 2.5 story Greek Revival-Italianate house was built in 1842 by Oliver Wood and Isaac Melvin as the latter's home. Melvin is also notable for designing the North Avenue Congregational Church. Despite an Italianate T-shaped massing, the building's front facade is strongly Greek Revival, with four two story pilasters supporting an entablature and topped by the fully pedimented gable end of the roof. The tympanum of the pediment has an Italianate round-arch window in it.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

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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. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for Isaac Melvin House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-21.


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