House at 42 Vinal Avenue

Year: 1884
Style: Shingle Style
City: Boston, MA

The house at 42 Vinal Avenue in Somerville is a well-preserved, roughly square Shingle style house built around 1884, when the nearby Prospect Hill area was a fashionable streetcar suburb offering easy commutes into Boston. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

the building

Cross-gable roofline. The 2½-story house has a cross-gable roof whose front-facing gable slopes down to the first floor on the right, sheltering a front porch beneath it.

the style

The house is described as a very pure execution of the Shingle style, with nearly the entire building clad in shingles and only very simple trim elements breaking the surface.

significance

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

nearby

House at 49 Vinal Avenue 230 ft · Colonial Revival · 1895
Wright House 240 ft · Shingle Style · 1895
George Loring House 0.1 mi · Shingle Style · 1895
Langmaid Building 0.1 mi · Second Empire · 1889
Louville V. Niles House 0.2 mi · Queen Anne · 1890
James H. Brooks House 0.2 mi · Second Empire · 1880

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