{"nrhp_refnum":"87002543","name":"Gale, George, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14--16 Clinton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cambridge","county":"Middlesex County","state":"MA","lat":42.36816968000005,"lon":-71.10630240099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-02-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 2 1/2-story wood frame, center gable Italianate double house at 14-16 Clinton Street in the Mid-Cambridge (Dana Hill) area of Cambridge, Massachusetts, built around 1853 (the criteria statement says ca. 1858). The architect is unknown.","why_significant":"The house is a locally important example of a mid-nineteenth-century double house with Italianate detailing, a distinctive residential type in Cambridge. It is also associated with the Gale family, lumber dealers who contributed to the growth of Cambridge's lumber industry and who reflect the middle-class business community of the Dana Hill neighborhood.","narrative":"Built around the mid-1850s on Clinton Street in Cambridge's Mid-Cambridge neighborhood, once known as Dana Hill, this large wood frame double house has a center gable, ornate Italianate brackets and round-arched windows beneath the gable. A brick fire wall divides it into two mirror-image homes, each with a side hall plan and plaster cornices and medallions on the first floor. Later changes included bay windows, side additions, an extended front porch and conversion to a rooming house in the 1930s. The house was built by the Gale family, prosperous lumber dealers. George F. Gale and his son George W. Gale helped modernize the local lumber trade, notably by bringing a railroad spur into their yard. The house reflects the family's middle-class business standing and Cambridge's rapid growth in the third quarter of the nineteenth century. It is recognized for its architecture and for these associations. It is now vacant and damaged, but it still conveys its nineteenth-century character.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Center Gable Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant, in poor condition with fire and vandal damage to the front porch, siding, doors, windows and front interiors; most interior mantles and one stair newel post are missing.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:13:02.261833-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/7921/63792110/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_MA/87002543.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002543/68b2d5a7fc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/87002543/68b2d5a7fc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tim Pierce","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Gale_House_Cambridge_MA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Pierce</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Gale_House_Cambridge_MA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63792110","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gale_House_(Cambridge,_Massachusetts)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5539589"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/massachusetts/middlesex-county/gale-george-house-87002543/"}