C. C. Crowell House
- Year
- 1890
- Style
- Queen Anne
- City
- Boston, MA
Built around 1890 in Somerville's Spring Hill neighborhood, the C. C. Crowell House is a 2.5-story wood-frame Queen Anne house assembled from a pattern-book design. Its first documented occupant was C. C. Crowell, a printer. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
the building
Corner porch. At the southeast corner of Benton Road and Hudson Street, a semicircular porch wraps the street corner, decorated with turned posts, jigsaw-cut struts, and a carved frieze — showpiece Queen Anne millwork facing the intersection.
Shingled upper stories. Bands of cut shingles wrap the upper levels between two-story polygonal window bays that project from both street-facing facades, with wood panels below the first-floor windows and extended eaves finished in modillions.
the style
The house is a textbook example of pattern-book Queen Anne, the mail-order Victorian style that let builders assemble turrets, bays, and gingerbread trim from published designs rather than architects' drawings. It bears a family resemblance to the neighboring Lemuel Snow Jr. House, whose massing and scale are similar.
More on Queen Annesignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as a notable example of Somerville's Spring Hill Victorian housing stock.
nearby
- First Unitarian Church
- First Universalist Church
- Martin W. Carr School
- House at 21 Dartmouth Street
- House at 16–18 Preston Road
- George Loring House