The James Gleason Cottage is a historic house at 31 Sayles Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Built about 1830 for a local businessman, it is a regionally rare example of vernacular Gothic Revival architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
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| Location | 31 Sayles St., Southbridge, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°4′45″N 72°2′37″W / 42.07917°N 72.04361°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1830 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Gothic |
| MPS | Southbridge MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 89000533[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 22, 1989 |
Description and history
editThe James Gleason Cottage is located in Southbridge's Globe Village area, on the east side of Sayles Street near Ash Street. The house is a modest 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure with a steeply pitched gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The main facade is three bays wide in the Greek Revival style, with corner pilasters and a pilastered entry in the left bay. A single-story porch extends across the front and right side, with bracketed square posts and turned balustrade. The front gable features a large recessed porch, its top consisting of an open Gothic arch. The right side has a gabled wall dormer projecting from the roof, and an ell extends to the rear.[2]
The house is a rare regional example of a residential house with Greek Revival and Gothic Revival features. It was built c. 1830, probably for James Gleason, an owner of a successful grocery business in Globe Village. It was originally located nearer the corner of Main and Sayles Street, and was moved to its present location about 1900.[2] It is now largely surrounded by parking lots of the adjacent medical center.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b "MACRIS inventory record for James Gleason Cottage". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2013-12-31.