The Richard Pinkham House is a historic house at 24 Brooks Park in
Medford, Massachusetts
Medford is a city northwest of downtown Boston on the Mystic River in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. At the time of the 2020 U.S. Census, Medford's population was 59,659. It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus alo ...
. The unusually shaped Italianate wood-frame house was built c. 1850 by Richard Pinkham, a housewright who then lived in the property. The house is unique in Medford in the presence of a -story octagon section, which rises above the rest of the roughly cruciform house. It was built on a portion of the route of the
Middlesex Canal, portions of which were at that time being sold off by its owners.
The house was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 2008,
and included as part of the
Middlesex Canal Historic and Archeological District in 2009.
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See also
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Medford, Massachusetts
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts
References
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Medford, Massachusetts
Historic district contributing properties in Massachusetts
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