House at 49 Vinal Avenue
- Year
- 1895
- Style
- Colonial Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The house at 49 Vinal Avenue in Somerville, Massachusetts is a stylish 2.5-story wood-frame house built around 1894 that combines Colonial Revival and Shingle style detailing. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
the building
Gambrel roof and gables. A wide gambrel roof is crossed by gambreled cross gables; the front gable is flanked by two hip-roof dormers whose windows carry pilasters and an entablature decorated with wooden garlands and dentil molding.
Shingle cladding and porch. The house is sheathed in wavy cut shingles, with windows topped by tall entablatures, and a porch runs the full width of the front facade, left uncovered except for a portico sheltering the front door.
the style
The combination of a Shingle style shell — wavy shingles, a broad gambrel roof — with Colonial Revival ornament like garlanded entablatures and dentil molding reflects the two styles' close overlap in fashionable American house design of the 1890s.
More on Colonial Revivalsignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
nearby
- Wright House
- House at 42 Vinal Avenue
- Langmaid Building
- George Loring House
- Louville V. Niles House
- James H. Brooks House