Elbridge Gerry House Explained

Elbridge Gerry House
Location:Marblehead, Massachusetts
Coordinates:42.5067°N -70.8481°W
Built:1730
Architect:Gerry, Thomas
Architecture:Georgian
Added:July 2, 1973
Refnum:73000304
Nrhp Type2:cp
Nocat:yes
Designated Nrhp Type2:January 10, 1984
Partof:Marblehead Historic District
Partof Refnum:84002402

The Elbridge Gerry House is a historic house at 44 Washington Street in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Local lore holds that this house is a c. 1730 house that was the home of merchant Thomas Gerry, and the place where statesman and Founding Father Elbridge Gerry was born in 1744. Stylistic analysis of the house, however, suggests that it is instead a late Georgian or early Federalist construction dating to c. 1790.[1]

The house listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and included in the Marblehead Historic District in 1984.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: MACRIS inventory record for Elbridge Gerry House. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 2014-01-16.