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The '''Richard Sanger III House''' is a historic house at 60 Washington Street in [[Sherborn, Massachusetts]]. |
The '''Richard Sanger III House''' is a historic house at 60 Washington Street 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> |
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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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| Location | Sherborn, Massachusetts |
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| Built | 1734 |
| Architect | Unknown |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| MPS | Sherborn MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 86000508 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 3, 1986 |
The Richard Sanger III House is a historic house at 60 Washington Street 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.[2]
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Richard Sanger III House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-09.
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