The Richard Sanger III House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. It is a 2+1⁄2-story timber-frame house, five bays wide, with a side gambrel roof and clapboard siding. The windows of the front facade are symmetrically placed, but the door is slightly off-center, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a gabled pediment. The house was built c. 1734, with a rear leanto added around 1775. It is unusual in the town as an 18th-century gambrel-roofed house with leanto. Sanger was the son of a Boston merchant, and one of the few people on the town documented to own slaves.[2]
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| Location | 60 Washington Street, Sherborn, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°14′9″N 71°22′48″W / 42.23583°N 71.38000°W |
| Built | 1734 |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| MPS | Sherborn MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 86000508[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 3, 1986 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Richard Sanger III House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-09.