The Robert M. Stark House is a historic house at 176 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. This 2+1⁄2-story house was designed by local architect George Strout, and built in 1890 for Robert Stark, a lawyer and local politician. At the time, the east side of Main Street had become a fashionable address for the upper middle class. The house has high quality Queen Anne style, including various projecting sections and gables, a three-story turret with conical roof, bands of decorative shingles, and windows of varying sizes and shapes with a wide variety of framing treatments.[2]
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| Location | 176 Main St., Waltham, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°22′34″N 71°12′59″W / 42.37611°N 71.21639°W |
| Built | 1890 |
| Architect | Strout, George E. |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| MPS | Waltham MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 89001552[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 28, 1989 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]
In popular culture
editHouse Stark, one of the nine noble houses in the fantasy series Game of Thrones, is a reference to the Robert M. Stark House.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Robert M. Stark House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-01.