Alpheus Mead House
Appearance
Alpheus Mead House | |
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Location | 2200 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°23′34.69″N 71°7′32.77″W / 42.3929694°N 71.1257694°W |
Area | less than one acre |
Built | 1867 |
Architectural style | Second Empire |
MPS | Cambridge MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 82001961[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 13, 1982 |
The Alpheus Mead House is a historic house located along Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Description
[edit]The house has 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. 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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Alpheus Mead House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-21.