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The Joseph K. James House is a historic house at 83 Belmont Street in
Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a total population of 81, ...
. This 3 story wood-frame house was built in 1893-4 for Joseph Knightley James, a partner in a local soap manufacturer. It is one of Somerville's best examples of Queen Anne and Colonial Revival styling. It has a rectangular Colonial Revival form with a pitched hip roof, with a Queen Anne turret and chimney tops. The front porch is supported by clusters of columns and features a pedimented gable over the entry that is decorated with a hand-carved lion's head surrounded by a floral design. The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1998.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Somerville, Massachusetts This is a list of properties and historic districts in Somerville, Massachusetts, that have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude ...


References

3. The Somerville Journal, March 15, 1894, page 1. Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Somerville, Massachusetts Houses completed in 1893 Colonial Revival architecture in Massachusetts {{SomervilleMA-NRHP-stub