Samuel Ireland House

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Samuel Ireland House
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Location117 Washington St.,
Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′52″N71°5′15″W / 42.38111°N 71.08750°W / 42.38111; -71.08750
Built1792
MPS Somerville MPS
NRHP reference No. 89001299 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 18, 1989

The Samuel Ireland House is a historic house in Somerville, Massachusetts. It is a 1+12-story vernacular cottage, five bays wide, with a side gable roof pierced by two dormers, and a projecting gable-roofed vestibule at the center of its front facade. The house was built c. 1792 by Samuel Ireland, a farmer. It is the oldest documented house in eastern Somerville, and one of the oldest in the city. [2]

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

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Samuel Ireland House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved March 3, 2014.