Alpheus Mead House

Alpheus Mead House
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°23′35″N 71°7′33″W / 42.39306°N 71.12583°W / 42.39306; -71.12583Coordinates: 42°23′35″N 71°7′33″W / 42.39306°N 71.12583°W / 42.39306; -71.12583
Area less than one acre
Built 1867
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Second Empire, Other
MPS Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference #

82001961

[1]
Added to NRHP April 13, 1982

The Alpheus Mead House is an historic house located at 2200 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Description

It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a mansard roof. Dormers piercing the roof are topped either by shallow gables or segmented-arch roofs. Modillions line the main roof eave, and windows are topped by over-length projecting lintels. The house has also retained its elaborately decorated porch. Built in the mid-1860s, this Second Empire house is one of just a few such houses to survive along Massachusetts Avenue, which was once lined with handsome and well-spaced houses. Its first documented owner was Alpheus Mead, a butcher.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for Alpheus Mead House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-21.


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