House at 4 Perry Street | |
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| Location | 4 Perry St., Brookline, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°20′7″N71°7′4″W / 42.33528°N 71.11778°W |
| Built | 1843 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| MPS | Brookline MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 85003287 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | October 17, 1985 |
4 Perry Street is a historic house in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. It is locally significant as a well-preserved local example of Greek Revival styling.
The 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame building was built in 1843, and was one of the first houses built in the Linden Square development. It has a fully pedimented gable, with pilasters between each of the windows on the second level. The walls under the single-story porch are flushboarded, and the columns supporting the porch have a distinctive acanthus-leaf molding near the top. [2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985. [1]
The Thomas Aspinwall Davis House is a historic house at 29 Linden Place in Brookline, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1844, by Thomas Aspinwall Davis, later a mayor of Boston, and is one of the earliest buildings to survive from his Linden Park project, the first residential subdivision in Brookline. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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