Isaac Melvin House

The Isaac Melvin House is a historic house at 19 Centre Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This 2+1⁄2-story Greek Revival-Italianate house was built in 1842 by Oliver Wood and Isaac Melvin as the latter's home. Melvin is also notable for designing the North Avenue Congregational Church. Despite an Italianate T-shaped massing, the building's front facade is strongly Greek Revival, with 4 two-story pilasters supporting an entablature and topped by the fully pedimented gable end of the roof. The tympanum of the pediment has an Italianate round-arch window in it.^[2]

Isaac Melvin House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′11.7″N 71°06′33.5″W
Built	1842
Architect	Isaac Melvin; Oliver Woods
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Italianate
MPS	Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.	82001962 [1]
Added to NRHP	April 13, 1982

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.^[1]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "MACRIS inventory record for Isaac Melvin House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved March 21, 2014.