Clark-Northrup House

Clark-Northrup House
Location Sherborn, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°14′19″N 71°23′14″W / 42.23861°N 71.38722°W / 42.23861; -71.38722Coordinates: 42°14′19″N 71°23′14″W / 42.23861°N 71.38722°W / 42.23861; -71.38722
Area 5.1 acres (2.1 ha)
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Greek Revival
MPS Sherborn MRA
NRHP Reference #

86000497

[1]
Added to NRHP January 3, 1986

The Clark-Northrup House is a historic house at 93 Maple Street in Sherborn, Massachusetts. Built c. 1845–55, it is a locally unusual example of a Greek Revival house with a more traditional Georgian side-gable roof. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

Description and history

The Clark-Northrup House is located on the south side of Maple Street, a local through street leading west from Sherborn center. It is screened from the road by trees, and is accessed via a semicircular drive. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The center entry is sheltered by a Doric porch, with Doric details also found in the house's corner boards and entablature.[2]

The house is estimated to have been built c. 1845–55, and was probably around the time of Nathaniel Clark's marriage in 1844. Clark was the son of Rev. Amos Clark, who lived across the street in a 1729 house. The house is locally unusual, as most Greek Revival houses have a front-facing gable and are three bays wide. Nathaniel Clark sold the house to Isaiah Northrup, a farmer, in the late 1860s or early 1870s.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "NRHP nomination for Clark-Northrup House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-08.


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