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Styles · 9 buildings with a page · 15 more in the state inventory, not yet researched

Gothic Revival

Pointed arches and steep gables, from board-and-batten cottages to polychrome churches.

Usual dates
1840–1880
In Newburyport
c. 1845–1885
Built 1830–1860
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Built 1860–1900
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6 Payson Street, Newburyport
An example6 Payson StreetWoodland Cottagec. 1843 · Gothic · Photo: Biff Bouse

How to recognize it

  1. 01Steep roofs and cross gables, with carved or sawn bargeboards at the eaves
  2. 02Pointed-arch windows and doors, or hood molds over ordinary windows
  3. 03Vertical board-and-batten siding on cottages
  4. 04Towers, spires and buttresses on churches
  5. 05High Victorian Gothic: brick and stone in contrasting bands and patterns
  6. 06One-story porches with flattened Gothic arches

About the style

Gothic Revival took its cues from medieval churches: steep gables, pointed-arch windows, decorated bargeboards and vertical board-and-batten siding. In Newburyport it is mostly a church style, and the later High Victorian Gothic churches add patterned brick and stone in several colors. A few cottages and additions carry the pointed windows and the steep cross gable.

It also turns up as an overlay: a Gothic window in the gable of an otherwise plain house, or bargeboards added to an earlier cottage.

Gothic Revival in Newburyport

6 Payson Street, Newburyportc. 18436 Payson StreetWoodland CottageGothic17 Summer Street, Newburyportc. 184517 Summer StreetEarly Gothic Revival/Greek Revival26 Green Street, Newburyport, in the MACRIS inventory photoc. 184726 Green StreetGreen Street Baptist Church51 Kent Street, Newburyportc. 185051 Kent Street223 High Street, Newburyportc. 1865223 High StreetGoodwin-Hamilton House28 Broad Street, Newburyportc. 187028 Broad StreetGeorge C. Stile HouseHigh Victorian Gothic16 Hancock Street, Newburyportc. 187016 Hancock StreetMary Ann Porter Cottage House37 Broad Street, Newburyportc. 187537 Broad StreetWilliam Noyes HouseVictorian Gothic21 Chapel Street, Newburyportc. 189021 Chapel StreetFrederick E. Condon House
Also in the state inventory 15 buildings not yet researched

117–119 State Street

20–22 Bromfield Street

5–7 Central Place

74–80 State Street

84–86 High Street

Boardman Street

Bromfield Street

Chestnut Street

Coffin Court

Green Street

High Street

State Street

Styles are as recorded on each building's page; a building whose page names two styles is listed under the one that fits its date, or under Victorian Eclectic when both are Victorian, with its own wording under its address. Buildings not yet researched show the state inventory's dates and styles. Hollow dots are lost buildings. Locations: MassGIS / Massachusetts Historical Commission.