Built 1842 NRHP Reference # 82001962 Area 4,047 m² | MPS Cambridge MRA Opened 1842 Added to NRHP 13 April 1982 | |
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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.
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