Anna Day House
- Year
- 1856
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The Anna Day House is a Gothic Revival cottage in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built in 1856 as part of the initial subdivision of the Strawberry Hill area. The 1½-story wood-frame house is a well-preserved example of the style and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1982.
the building
Drip-style bargeboard. The house is notable for its drip-style bargeboard decoration, one of the Gothic details that survives intact even as other elements — finials on the gable and drip molding around the windows — have since been lost.
the style
A modest wood-frame expression of Gothic Revival styling, marked chiefly by its surviving bargeboard trim; some of the house's other Gothic touches, including gable finials and window drip molding, no longer survive.
More on Gothic Revivalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 13, 1982.
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