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The '''Richard Sanger III House''' is a historic house in [[Sherborn, Massachusetts]]. It is a 2-1/2 story timber frame house, five bays wide, with a side gambrel roof and clapboard siding. The windows of the front facade are symmetrically placed, but the door is slightly off-center, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a gabled pediment. The house was built c. 1734, with a rear leanto added around 1775. It is unusual in the town as an 18th-century gambrel-roofed house with leanto. Sanger was the son of a Boston merchant, and one of the few people on the town documented to own slaves.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SHR.154|title=NRHP nomination for Richard Sanger III House|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|accessdate=2014-05-09}}</ref>
The '''Richard Sanger III House''' is a historic house in [[Sherborn, Massachusetts]]. It is a {{frac|2|1|2}}-story timber-frame house, five bays wide, with a side gambrel roof and clapboard siding. The windows of the front facade are symmetrically placed, but the door is slightly off-center, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a gabled pediment. The house was built c. 1734, with a rear leanto added around 1775. It is unusual in the town as an 18th-century gambrel-roofed house with leanto. Sanger was the son of a Boston merchant, and one of the few people on the town documented to own slaves.<ref name=NRHP>{{cite web|url=http://mhc-macris.net/Details.aspx?MhcId=SHR.154|title=NRHP nomination for Richard Sanger III House|publisher=Commonwealth of Massachusetts|accessdate=2014-05-09}}</ref>


The house was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1986.<ref name="nris"/>
The house was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1986.<ref name="nris"/>
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Richard Sanger III House
Richard Sanger III House is located in Massachusetts
Richard Sanger III House
Richard Sanger III House is located in the United States
Richard Sanger III House
Location60 Washington Street,
Sherborn, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°14′9″N 71°22′48″W / 42.23583°N 71.38000°W / 42.23583; -71.38000
Built1734
Architectural styleGeorgian
MPSSherborn MRA
NRHP reference No.86000508[1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 3, 1986

The Richard Sanger III House is a historic house in Sherborn, Massachusetts. It is a 2+12-story timber-frame house, five bays wide, with a side gambrel roof and clapboard siding. The windows of the front facade are symmetrically placed, but the door is slightly off-center, flanked by sidelight windows and topped by a gabled pediment. The house was built c. 1734, with a rear leanto added around 1775. It is unusual in the town as an 18th-century gambrel-roofed house with leanto. Sanger was the son of a Boston merchant, and one of the few people on the town documented to own slaves.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Richard Sanger III House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-09.