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Styles · 24 buildings with a page

Vernacular

Buildings built to a plain builder's pattern, with the trim of no particular style.

Usual dates
Any period
In Newburyport
c. 1762–1890
Built Before 1775
3
Built 1775–1830
6
Built 1830–1860
4
Built 1860–1900
10
Built 1900–1945
1
14 Fruit Street, Newburyport
An example14 Fruit StreetDaniel and Isabel Silloway Housec. 1877 · Photo: Biff Bouse

How to recognize it

  1. 01A plain rectangular form with a pitched roof and no cornice ornament
  2. 02Simple flat board trim around doors and windows
  3. 03Window sash that date the building: 12-over-12 or 9-over-6 before 1800, 6-over-6 to about 1860, 2-over-2 after
  4. 04A chimney placement that shows the plan: central, end, or in the ridge of a tenement
  5. 05Shops and stores with a flat front and a plain parapet
  6. 06Later alterations that hide an earlier building

About the style

Vernacular is not a style but the absence of one: the workers' cottages, tenements, shops, sheds and stores that were built to a local pattern without the ornament that would tie them to a fashion. The state inventory uses the label for buildings of every period. They are dated by their form, their chimneys, the proportion of their windows and the number of panes in the sash rather than by any detail.

On this site the label also covers buildings the inventory calls astylistic, and a few Biff records as having no style.

Vernacular in Newburyport

7 Marlboro Street, Newburyportc. 17587 Marlboro StreetRichard Pettingell House65 Middle Street, Newburyportc. 176065 Middle StreetWilliam Nichols House29 Summer Street, Newburyportc. 176229 Summer StreetMoses Hoyt House8 Olive Street, Newburyportc. 17758 Olive StreetNathaniel Sargent House38 Market Street, Newburyportc. 1790–180338 Market StreetSilas Rodgers House1 Market Street, Newburyportc. 17951 Market StreetJohn B. Pritchard House1 Atkinson Street, Newburyportc. 1800–18251 Atkinson StreetAbraham Williams House30 Franklin Street, Newburyportc. 182530 Franklin StreetA. Dole House69 Middle Street, Newburyportc. 182569 Middle Street12 Fair Street, Newburyportc. 184012 Fair StreetElias Pike House12 Court Street, Newburyportc. 184712 Court StreetM.M. Ross House18-18 ½ Walnut Street, Newburyportc. 185018-18 ½ Walnut StreetEnoch P. Lunt House188 Water Street, Newburyportc. 1850188 Water StreetWilliam Collins Cabinet Maker ShopAstylistic35 Broad Street, Newburyport186635 Broad StreetJohn Dockum House56 Marlboro Street, Newburyportc. 187056 Marlboro StreetEdward Everett Gould House22 Warren Street, Newburyportc. 187022 Warren StreetAstylistic14 Fruit Street, Newburyportc. 187714 Fruit StreetDaniel and Isabel Silloway House23 Tyng Street, Newburyportc. 188023 Tyng StreetJoseph H. Currier House88 State Street, Newburyportc. 188388 State StreetJohn Sumner ShopAstylistic commercial57 Ashland Street, Newburyportc. 189057 Ashland StreetCharles Genn House28-30 Market Street, Newburyportc. 1890–9428-30 Market StreetCharles W. Blake House46 Munroe Street, Newburyportc. 189046 Munroe Street50 Plummer Avenue, Newburyportc. 190050 Plummer AvenueCurrier House27 Barton Street, Newburyportc. 191527 Barton StreetAstylistic

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.