House at 81 Pearl Street
- Year
- 1860
- Style
- Italianate
- City
- Boston, MA
The house at 81 Pearl Street in Somerville is a well-preserved Italianate house built around 1860, among the best-preserved examples of the period's worker housing in East Somerville. An early occupant was Benjamin Gage, a machinist.
the building
Bracketed front gable. The 2½-story wood-frame house has a deep front gable with paired decorative brackets, and a front porch on square columns finished with an unusual scalloped-arch cornice trim.
the style
Its Italianate detailing — paired brackets on the gable and a scalloped-arch cornice on the porch — was applied to what was otherwise standard worker housing in East Somerville.
More on Italianatesignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
nearby
- Charles Williams Jr. House
- House at 5 Prospect Hill
- Louville V. Niles House
- James H. Brooks House
- Langmaid Building
- United States Post Office–Somerville Main