Samuel Colby House

Samuel Colby House
Location 74 Winthrop St., Taunton, Massachusetts
Coordinates 41°53′50″N 71°5′55″W / 41.89722°N 71.09861°W / 41.89722; -71.09861Coordinates: 41°53′50″N 71°5′55″W / 41.89722°N 71.09861°W / 41.89722; -71.09861
Built 1869 (1869)
Architectural style Stick/Eastlake, Italianate
MPS Taunton MRA
NRHP reference #

84002103

[1]
Added to NRHP July 5, 1984

The Samuel Colby House is a historic house located at 74 Winthrop Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. Built in 1869 for a prominent local businessman, it is one of the city's best examples of high-style Italianate architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

Description and history

The Samuel Colby House is located south of downtown Taunton, on the south side of Winthrop Street at its junction with Walnut Street. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a stuccoed finish, and a low-pitch hip roof capped by a large square cupola. The main roof has elongated eaves studded with paired brackets, and the cupola roof has a curtain-style valance. The house is three bays wide, with a polygonal bay above the main entrance at the center of the front facade. The bays are demarcated by pilasters, and a single-story porch extends across the width of the front. The porch has a flat roof with bracketed eave, and is extensively decorated with stickwork. A similar porch extends along the side of the rear ell, facing Walnut Street.[2]

The house was built in 1869 for Samuel Colby, a manufacturer and retailer of men's and boy's clothing who operated a store in the Union Block in downtown Taunton. It is one of the city's least-altered post-Civil War 19th-century houses, and a particularly distinctive example of high-style Italianate architecture.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "MACRIS inventory form and NRHP nomination for Samuel Colby House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-06-02.
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