The C.J.H. Bassett House is a historic house located at 20 Chestnut Street in Taunton, Massachusetts. The house was built in 1851 for Charles Jarvis Hunt Bassett, a prominent Taunton attorney and president of the Taunton Bank.
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Location | 20 Chestnut St., Taunton, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 41°54′12″N 71°5′25″W / 41.90333°N 71.09028°W |
Built | 1851 |
Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
MPS | Taunton MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 84002091 [1] |
Added to NRHP | July 05, 1984 |
Description and history
editThe house is locally significant as a rare example of a Gothic Revival residence in the city. The 2+1⁄2-story frame house features an irregular floor plan and a bell-cast gable roof with Gothic Revival influenced vergeboards, incised and punched with quatrefoil motifs, and pointed arch dormer windows.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1984.
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