Robert M. Stark House

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Robert M. Stark House
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Location176 Main St., Waltham, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′34″N71°12′59″W / 42.37611°N 71.21639°W / 42.37611; -71.21639 Coordinates: 42°22′34″N71°12′59″W / 42.37611°N 71.21639°W / 42.37611; -71.21639
Built1890
ArchitectStrout, George E.
Architectural style Queen Anne
MPS Waltham MRA
NRHP reference No. 89001552 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 28, 1989

The Robert M. Stark House is a historic house at 176 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. This 2+12-story house was designed by local architect George Strout, and built in 1890 for Robert Stark, a lawyer and local politician. At the time, the east side of Main Street had become a fashionable address for the upper middle class. The house has high quality Queen Anne style, including various projecting sections and gables, a three-story turret with conical roof, bands of decorative shingles, and windows of varying sizes and shapes with a wide variety of framing treatments. [2]

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The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1]

House Stark, one of the nine noble houses in the fantasy series Game of Thrones, is a reference to the Robert M. Stark House.

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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 Robert M. Stark House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-01.