Elbridge Gerry House

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Elbridge Gerry House
Elbridge Gerry House at 44 Washington Street
Elbridge Gerry House is located in Massachusetts
Elbridge Gerry House
Elbridge Gerry House is located in the United States
Elbridge Gerry House
LocationMarblehead, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°30′24″N 70°50′53″W / 42.50667°N 70.84806°W / 42.50667; -70.84806
Built1730
ArchitectGerry, Thomas
Architectural styleGeorgian
Part ofMarblehead Historic District (ID84002402[1])
NRHP reference No.73000304 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJuly 2, 1973
Designated CPJanuary 10, 1984

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.[2]

The house listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973,[1] and included in the Marblehead Historic District in 1984.[2]

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  1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "MACRIS inventory record for Elbridge Gerry House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-16.