James Gleason Cottage

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James Gleason Cottage
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Location31 Sayles St., Southbridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°4′45″N72°2′37″W / 42.07917°N 72.04361°W / 42.07917; -72.04361 Coordinates: 42°4′45″N72°2′37″W / 42.07917°N 72.04361°W / 42.07917; -72.04361
Arealess than one acre
Built1830
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Gothic
MPS Southbridge MRA
NRHP reference No. 89000533 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 22, 1989

The James Gleason Cottage is a historic house at 31 Sayles Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Built about 1830 for a local businessman, it is a regionally rare example of vernacular Gothic Revival architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]

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Description and history

The James Gleason Cottage is located in Southbridge's Globe Village area, on the east side of Sayles Street near Ash Street. The house is a modest 1+12-story wood-frame structure with a steeply pitched gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is three bays wide in the Greek Revival style, with corner pilasters and a pilastered entry in the left bay. A single-story porch extends across the front and right side, with bracketed square posts and turned balustrade. The front gable features a large recessed porch, its top consisting of an open Gothic arch. The right side has a gabled wall dormer projecting from the roof, and an ell extends to the rear. [2]

The house is a rare regional example of a residential house with Greek Revival and Gothic Revival features. It was built c. 1830, probably for James Gleason, an owner of a successful grocery business in Globe Village. It was originally located nearer the corner of Main and Sayles Street, and was moved to its present location about 1900. [2] It is now largely surrounded by parking lots of the adjacent medical center.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. 1 2 "MACRIS inventory record for James Gleason Cottage". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-31.