Samuel Gaut House

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Samuel Gaut House
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Location137 Highland Avenue,
Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°23′17.30″N71°6′7.20″W / 42.3881389°N 71.1020000°W / 42.3881389; -71.1020000
Built1855
Architectural styleItalianate
MPS Somerville MPS
NRHP reference No. 89001265 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 18, 1989

The Samuel Gaut House is a historic house in Somerville, Massachusetts. The 2+12-story wood-frame house was built c. 1855 for Samuel Gaut, a baker, and is a well-preserved example of a typical Italianate house. It is three bays wide with a typical Italianate center gable, which is studded with brackets and has a trefoil window in the peak. The side gables have round-arch windows, and the building is topped by an octagonal cupola with a belled finial. [2]

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The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [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 Samuel Gaut House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-28.