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Isaac Melvin House

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Built
  
1842

NRHP Reference #
  
82001962

Area
  
4,047 m²

Architect
  
Isaac Melvin

MPS
  
Cambridge MRA

Opened
  
1842

Added to NRHP
  
13 April 1982

Isaac Melvin House

Location
  
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Architectural styles
  
Greek Revival architecture, Italianate architecture

Similar
  
Lechmere Canal, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Square, Cambridge Common, Semitic Museum

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.

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

References

Isaac Melvin House Wikipedia