House at 6 S. Marble Street

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House at 6 S. Marble Street
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Location6 S. Marble St., Stoneham, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°28′48″N71°6′21″W / 42.48000°N 71.10583°W / 42.48000; -71.10583
Built1810
MPS Stoneham MRA
NRHP reference No. 84002690 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1984

The House at 6 S. Marble Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts, is a rare early 19th century worker's house, and the only significant survivor of the early quarrying industry in Stoneham. It is a wood-frame house, two stories high, five bays wide and one room deep, with a side gable roof and a granite foundation. It has simple cornerboards and door and window trim. Houses like this were somewhat common on the early routes through the town, of which South Marble Street is a relatively undisturbed surviving fragment. This house was built about 1810. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [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. "NRHP nomination for House at 6 South Marble Street". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-26.