Allyn House (Arlington, Massachusetts)
Allyn House | |
 | |
   | |
| Location | 94 Oakland Avenue, Arlington, Massachusetts |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 42°25′8″N 71°10′44″W / 42.41889°N 71.17889°W |
| Built | 1898 |
| Architectural style | Bungalow/Craftsman |
| MPS | Arlington MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 85002680[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 27, 1985 |
The Allyn House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. Built about 1898, it is a prominent local example of Craftsman style architecture. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
Description and history
[edit]The Allyn House stands in the Arlington Heights neighborhood, on the southeast side of Oakland Avenue roughly midway between Cedar Avenue and Gray Street. It occupies an irregular diamond-shaped lot, and is (unlike its neighbors) oriented at an angle to the street. The front of the lot is demarcated by a low rubblestone wall. The house is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a stuccoed exterior and brown wooden trim. It has a hip roof with extended eaves, punctuated by hip-roofed dormers with shingled sides. Its front facade is dominated by a full-height polygonal bay, with a band of narrow casement windows in the center section, and single windows on the angled sides. Other Craftsman details include exposed rafter ends and a number of diamond-pane windows.[2]
Significant development in the Arlington Heights area began following the 1872 purchase of the Pierce family properties by the Arlington Land Company.[3] The lot this house stands on was among the Arlington Land Company holdings, and the house was built about 1898. It was owned for many years by Phillip M. Allyn, a publisher who worked in Boston. It is a particularly fine local example of Craftsman architecture.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b "MACRIS inventory record and NRHP nomination for Allyn House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
- ^ "Multiple Property Submission form for Arlington MPA". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
| Topics |  | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lists by county | |||||||||||||||||
| Lists by city |
| ||||||||||||||||
| Other lists | |||||||||||||||||
