Israel B. Mason House | |
Location: | Providence, Rhode Island |
Coordinates: | 41.8087°N -71.421°W |
Built: | 1888 |
Architect: | Stone, Carpenter & Willson |
Architecture: | Queen Anne |
Added: | August 16, 1977 |
Refnum: | 77000001 |
The Israel B. Mason House is an historic house at 571 Broad Street in Providence, Rhode Island. It is a -story wood-frame structure, built in 1888 for Israel Bowen Mason, a wealthy merchant. It is one of the city's finest Queen Anne residences, with a visually complex assortment of projecting bays, verandas, turrets and gables. Particularly of note are its eastern porch and three-story octagonal tower. The house was designed by Stone, Carpenter & Willson, a prominent local architecture firm, for Mason, a self-made successful wholesaler of grocery and meat products.[1] The house now houses a funeral home.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.