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The A. L. Lovejoy House is a historic house in
Somerville, Massachusetts Somerville ( ) is a city located directly to the northwest of Boston, and north of Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As of the 2020 United States Census, the city had a total population of 81,045 people. With an area o ...
. The three-story wood-frame Second Empire house was built in the early 1870s for Alvan Lovejoy, a Boston "fancy goods" dealer who probably commuted using either the street car or steam rail that served Union Square. The house has a typical Second Empire mansard roof clad in polychrome slate. Windows are decorated with hoods, and there are decorative brackets on the front entry porch, the roof cornice, and the roof of the projecting front bay. 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 ...
in 1989.


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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 ...


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Somerville, Massachusetts Houses completed in 1871 {{SomervilleMA-NRHP-stub