Langmaid Building
- Year
- 1889
- Style
- Second Empire
- City
- Boston, MA
The Langmaid Building is a brick rowhouse in Somerville, built by Samuel Langmaid and members of his family as part of a series of Second Empire multiunit buildings. It was the first building in the area built of brick, marking a shift away from the wood-frame construction that had dominated Somerville, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
the building
Brick and slate. The building carries decorative panel brick insets and the characteristic slate mansard roof of the Langmaid family's Second Empire rowhouses.
the style
Second Empire styling shows in the slate mansard roof and decorative brick paneling, applied to a rowhouse type the Langmaids built repeatedly in the neighborhood.
More on Second Empiresignificance
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
nearby
- House at 49 Vinal Avenue
- Wright House
- George Loring House
- House at 42 Vinal Avenue
- Louville V. Niles House
- Stickney Building and Masonic Apartments