Isaac Melvin House

Isaac Melvin House
Isaac Melvin House is located in Massachusetts
Isaac Melvin House
Isaac Melvin House is located in the United States
Isaac Melvin House
LocationCambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°22′11.7″N 71°06′33.5″W / 42.369917°N 71.109306°W / 42.369917; -71.109306
Built1842
ArchitectIsaac Melvin; Oliver Woods
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Italianate
MPSCambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.82001962 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1982

The Isaac Melvin House is a historic house at 19 Centre Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This 2+1⁄2-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 4 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. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Isaac Melvin House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-21.


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