Gen. Samuel Chandler House

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Gen. Samuel Chandler House
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General Samuel Chandler House
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Location Lexington, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°27′4″N71°13′45″W / 42.45111°N 71.22917°W / 42.45111; -71.22917 Coordinates: 42°27′4″N71°13′45″W / 42.45111°N 71.22917°W / 42.45111; -71.22917
Built1846
Architect Isaac Melvin
Architectural styleItalian Villa
NRHP reference No. 77000176 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1977

The Gen. Samuel Chandler House is a historic house at 8 Goodwin Road in Lexington, Massachusetts. The two story wood-frame house was built in 1846 to a design by architect Isaac Melvin. The Italianate style house features a bracketed shallow-pitch roof, and a three-story campanile-style tower with a steeply pitched pyramidal roof and three-part round-arch windows with balconies at its top level. A hip-roof porch with arch-forming brackets extends along one side. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "MACRIS inventory record for Gen. Samuel Chandler House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-04-06.