House at 50 Pelham Street | |
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Location | 50 Pelham St., Methuen, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°43′32″N71°11′34″W / 42.72556°N 71.19278°W |
Built | 1875 |
Architectural style | Italianate |
MPS | Methuen MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 84002392 [1] |
Added to NRHP | January 20, 1984 |
The house at 50 Pelham Street in Methuen, Massachusetts is a well-preserved Italianate house and barn. Built sometime in the 1870s, the 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house features typical Italianate decorations, including extended bracketed eaves (not just on the roof but also on projecting window lintels), doubled brackets in the gable eaves, and a round-arch window in the gable end. The barn at the back of the property is a simple wood-frame structure that appears to date to the same period as the house. [2]
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]
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