Robert Frost House
- Year
- 1884
- Style
- Queen Anne
- City
- Boston, MA
Built in 1884, the Robert Frost House is actually four wood-frame townhouses arranged in mirror-image pairs, each pair sharing a porch on turned posts with a low Stick-style balustrade. Poet Robert Frost lived here for the last two decades of his life. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and remains a private home today.
the building
Mirrored townhouses. The four 2 1/2-story units are built as mirror-image pairs, their shared porches carried on turned posts with Stick-style balustrades, and their gables trimmed with a modest amount of Gothic-style bargeboard.
the style
The house mixes Queen Anne and Stick-style detailing typical of 1880s Cambridge, from the turned porch posts and stick balustrades to the Gothic-flavored bargeboard decorating the gables.
More on Queen Annesignificance
The Robert Frost House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, its listing tied to Robert Frost's two decades of residence there. It remains a private home.
nearby
- J.A. Noyes House
- Howe House
- Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson House
- Hooper-Lee-Nichols House
- William Dean Howells House
- Oliver Hastings House