Walking tours of Somerville
Somerville's register runs heavily to houses, 54 listings of that kind. Queen Anne is the style recorded most often on these buildings.
4 themed routes run through those listings. Of the routes below, two follow a single style, one follows one kind of building and one follows a single decade. A subject becomes a route only where the register holds enough of it close enough together to walk.
Every listing in Somerville → · 78 in all
The routes
- StyleQueen Anne houses in Somerville10 stops · 1.6 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Queen Anne is a late Victorian manner of irregular plans, steep roofs, turrets, bay windows and wrapping porches. The Somerville examples on this route went up between 1867 and 1895.
- StyleItalianate houses in Somerville10 stops · 2.2 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Italianate buildings have low roofs with wide bracketed eaves, tall narrow windows and heavy hoods over the openings. The Somerville examples on this route went up between 1848 and 1885.
- Building typeHouses and mansions in Somerville15 stops · 1.1 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026The route links houses built between 1849 and 1910. Many are private homes and the stops are meant to be seen from the sidewalk.
- Decade builtSomerville in the 1890s15 stops · 2.0 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Every stop carries a construction date in the 1890s. Queen Anne style is the style recorded on more of them than any other.
Every route holds at least ten stops and stays under two and a half miles. Routes are computed from the coordinates in the National Park Service National Register spatial data, and the distances are straight lines between stops. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.