Building at 10 Follen Street

Architect: Peabody and Stearns
Year: 1875
Style: Stick Style
City: Boston, MA

This three-story wood-frame house at 10 Follen Street in Cambridge was designed by the Boston firm Peabody & Stearns and built in 1875. It survives as a rare, well-preserved example of the moment when American domestic architecture was pivoting from the Second Empire style toward the Stick style.

the building

Roof and porch. The house has a truncated hip roof, a hallmark of the Second Empire style it's transitioning away from, paired with a highly decorated porch. Most of the original interior woodwork also survives intact.

the style

The house is valued specifically as a transitional building, caught between the mansard-roofed formality of Second Empire and the exposed structural detailing of the emerging Stick style, with features of both on display at once.

significance

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and later folded into the Follen Street Historic District in 1986.

nearby

Cloverden 0.1 mi · Greek Revival · 1837
Edwin Abbot House 0.1 mi · Richardsonian Romanesque · 1889
Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church 0.1 mi · Richardsonian Romanesque · 1891
Austin Hall 0.2 mi
Grace Hopkinson Eliot Hall 0.2 mi · Colonial Revival · 1907
Christ Church 0.2 mi · Georgian · 1760

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