Isaac Melvin House

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Isaac Melvin House
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Location Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′11.7″N71°06′33.5″W / 42.369917°N 71.109306°W / 42.369917; -71.109306
Built1842
Architect Isaac Melvin; Oliver Woods
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Italianate
MPS Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No. 82001962 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1982

The Isaac Melvin House is a historic house at 19 Centre Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This 2+12-story Greek Revival-Italianate house was built in 1842 by Oliver Wood and Isaac Melvin as the latter's home. Melvin is also notable for designing the North Avenue Congregational Church. Despite an Italianate T-shaped massing, the building's front facade is strongly Greek Revival, with 4 two-story pilasters supporting an entablature and topped by the fully pedimented gable end of the roof. The tympanum of the pediment has an Italianate round-arch window in it. [2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [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 Isaac Melvin House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-21.