The Isaac Melvin House is a historic house at 19 Centre Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This 2+1⁄2-story Greek Revival-Italianate house was built in 1842 by Oliver Wood and Isaac Melvin as the latter's home. Melvin is also notable for designing the North Avenue Congregational Church. Despite an Italianate T-shaped massing, the building's front facade is strongly Greek Revival, with 4 two-story pilasters supporting an entablature and topped by the fully pedimented gable end of the roof. The tympanum of the pediment has an Italianate round-arch window in it.[2]
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| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°22′11.7″N 71°06′33.5″W / 42.369917°N 71.109306°W |
| Built | 1842 |
| Architect | Isaac Melvin; Oliver Woods |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Italianate |
| MPS | Cambridge MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001962 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 13, 1982 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Isaac Melvin House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-21.