Henry C. Hall House | |
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Location | 107 Crescent St., Waltham, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°22′12.3″N71°14′27.8″W / 42.370083°N 71.241056°W |
Built | 1872 |
Architectural style | Italianate |
MPS | Waltham MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 89001579 [1] |
Added to NRHP | September 28, 1989 |
The Henry C. Hall House is a historic house at 107 Crescent Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. This 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1872–74 by Henry Hall, co-owner of a local pharmacy. The house has a mansard roof characteristic of the Second Empire style, with a 3+1⁄2-story tower topped by a truncated hip roof. The cornice of the tower and of the main house are both studded with brackets, as are the skirted roof lines above the building's projecting bays. [2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]
The S.A. Hall House is an historic house located at 147 North Main Street in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. It is a 2+1⁄2 story wood-frame structure, with a cross-gable roof, clapboard and wood shingle siding, and a granite foundation. A three-story square tower stands in a crook at the front of the house, topper by a pyramidal roof with a flared edge and bracketed eave. It has decorative cut shingle work in the gables and in bands between the levels. Its front porch, set in front of the tower, has a decorative bracketed frieze and turned posts. Built c. 1890, it is one of Uxbridge's finest Queen Anne houses. Its first documented owner was S. Alonzo Hall, publisher of the Uxbridge Compendium.
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