Sara Foster Colburn House

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Sara Foster Colburn House
Sara Coburn House, 7 Dana Street, Cambridge (Middlesex County, Massachusetts).jpg
Sara Coburn House in 1964
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Location Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′12.2″N71°06′37.2″W / 42.370056°N 71.110333°W / 42.370056; -71.110333
Built1846
ArchitectVirgin, Nathaniel
Architectural styleGothic Revival
MPS Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No. 82004968 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1982

The Sara Foster Colburn House is an historic house at 7 Dana Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built in 1846, the 1+12-story wood-frame house is the best example of Gothic Revival architecture in the city. The building has bargeboard decoration on its front gable, which frames a deeply recessed porch with Gothic-style openings and a distinctive wrought iron railing of a type typically found only in the Connecticut River valley. [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 Sara Foster Colburn House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-09.