Prentiss-Payson House

Location224–226 Pleasant Street,
Arlington, Massachusetts

Coordinates42°24′25″N 71°9′43″W / 42.40694°N 71.16194°W / 42.40694; -71.16194

Built1856; 170 years ago (1856)

ArchitecturalstyleGreek Revival, Italianate

Prentiss-Payson House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	224–226 Pleasant Street, Arlington, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°24′25″N 71°9′43″W / 42.40694°N 71.16194°W / 42.40694; -71.16194
Built	1856; 170 years ago (1856)
Architectural style	Greek Revival, Italianate
MPS	Arlington MRA
NRHP reference No.	85001040[1]
Added to NRHP	April 18, 1985

The Prentiss-Payson House is a historic house in Arlington, Massachusetts. This 2+1⁄2-story clapboarded wood-frame house was built in 1856 for two women named Prentiss and Payson. Its massing and some of its styling is Italianate, but the front door surround, with sidelight and transom windows, pilasters, and triangular pediment, is distinctly Greek Revival in character. A later resident was Prentiss Payson, organist at a local church and a music teacher.^[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1]