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Samuel Ireland House

Coordinates: 42°22′52″N 71°5′15″W / 42.38111°N 71.08750°W / 42.38111; -71.08750
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Samuel Ireland House
Samuel Ireland House is located in Massachusetts
Samuel Ireland House
Samuel Ireland House is located in the United States
Samuel Ireland House
Location117 Washington St.,
Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°22′52″N 71°5′15″W / 42.38111°N 71.08750°W / 42.38111; -71.08750
Built1792
MPSSomerville MPS
NRHP reference No.89001299[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 18, 1989

The Samuel Ireland House is a historic house in Somerville, Massachusetts. It is a 1+12-story vernacular cottage, five bays wide, with a side gable roof pierced by two dormers, and a projecting gable-roofed vestibule at the center of its front facade. The house was built c. 1792 by Samuel Ireland, a farmer. It is the oldest documented house in eastern Somerville, and one of the oldest in the city.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Samuel Ireland House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-03.