Comins-Wall House
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The Comins-Wall House is a historic house located at 42 Hamilton Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Built about 1850, it is a distinctive local example of a Greek Revival cottage with later Victorian embellishments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1989. The Comins-Wall House is located in Southbridge's central business district, on the east side of Hamilton Street near its junction with Hook Street. It is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof. Its front facade is finished in wooden clapboards, and the sides are covered in asphalt shingle siding. Its corners have pilasters, which rise to an entablature that runs along the sides. The front facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the left bay and two sash windows to its right; another two sash windows are found in the gable above. The entrance is framed by sidelight and transom windows, slight recessed in an opening with flanked by slender paneled pilasters. A single-story porch extends across the front, with chamfered square posts rising to decorative jigsawn brackets. The 1+1⁄2-story Greek Revival cottage is estimated to have been built in 1850, probably for a J. Comins, who was listed as its owner in 1855. The cottage, a fairly typical middle-class house of the period, is a rare survivor of a fire that swept the area in 1863. The front porch was probably added in the 1880s. This change may have been made by George F. Wall, a tailor and cloth dealer who owned it in the 1870s. National Register of Historic Places listings in Southbridge, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places listings in Worcester County, Massachusetts
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When was Comins-Wall House listed on the National Register?
Comins-Wall House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1989.
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Comins-Wall House is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Comins-Wall House is recorded as the industrial era.
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