Thomas Shepard House
historic house in Massachusetts, United States
The Thomas Shepard House is a historic house at 764 East Hill Road in New Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States. It is one of the older homes in New Marlborough (built 1798), and is one of three 18th-century houses on a 3-mile (4.8 km) stretch of East Hill Road, which was then one of only three roads in the town. Thomas Shepard, for whom it was built, was a major figure in the town's early history. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Description and history
The Thomas Shepard House is located in a rural setting of eastern New Marlborough, on the north side of East Hill Road, west of its junction with Windemere Road. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof, two interior chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. The main facade is five bays wide, with a center entrance framed by sidelight windows and a corniced entablature. Most windows are rectangular sash, topped by projecting cornices, while that above the entrance is a three-part window with narrow sash windows flanking a larger central one. The main roof line has a line of dentil moulding at the cornice. The house has retained most of its architectural work, although its roof was converted from a hip roof to a gable end roof in the 19th century, before being restored to its original form.
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