Isaac McLean House
- Architect
- Hartwell and Richardson
- Year
- 1894
- Style
- Colonial Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The Isaac McLean House at 2218 Massachusetts Avenue was built in 1894 for Isaac McLean, a well-known Boston accountant, who engaged the firm Hartwell and Richardson to design his residence on a lot then part of the Farwell Estate. It is a well-maintained example of Colonial Revival architecture, one of the style's two dominant idioms in the area between 1870 and 1920, alongside Tudor Revival. For more than 25 years the house has operated as A Cambridge House Inn.
the building
The Ionic-columned porch. A wide porch runs the full width of the front facade, carried on pillars with Ionic capitals and an ornamental balustrade, with a classic fanlight and sidelights framing the main entrance and dentils lining the cornice.
the style
The house is Colonial Revival, one of two architectural styles, the other Tudor Revival, that dominated the era's domestic building between 1870 and 1920.
More on Colonial Revivalsignificance
The house is part of a small grouping of Victorian-era homes on Massachusetts Avenue described as the sole remaining stretch of what was once the most prestigious address in Cambridge.
nearby
- St. John's Roman Catholic Church
- Chester Kingsley House
- Clifton Bacon House
- Greek Revival Cottage
- Somerville Theatre
- St. James Episcopal Church