Houses and mansions in Somerville
This tour visits places the Register records as dwellings, among them single houses, rowhouses and mansions. Many are private homes and the stops are meant to be seen from the sidewalk. More of the Somerville register is houses than any other kind of building, 54 listings of it in all.
The stops that carry a construction date run from 1849 to 1910. 15 stops, 1.1 miles end to end.
Distances are straight lines between the coordinates in the National Park Service Register data, so the walk on the street will be longer. Nobody has walked or checked this as a route, and a listing does not mean a place is open to visitors. Stops last changed Sep 18, 2026.
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Map
Coordinates come from the National Park Service National Register spatial data. The solid line joins the stops in walking order and is not a street route. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Walking order
- 1House at 16--18 Preston Road16--18 Preston Rd.Building · built 1910 · listed 1989start
- 2Alexander Foster House45 Laurel St.Building · built 1860 · listed 19890.1 mi from stop 1
- 3Walter S. and Melissa E. Barnes House140 Highland Ave.Building · built 1890 · listed 19900.2 mi from stop 2
- 4Samuel Gaut House137 Highland Ave.Building · built 1850 · listed 1989197 ft from stop 3
- 5George Loring House76 Highland Ave.Building · built 1895 · listed 19890.3 mi from stop 4
- 6Wright House54 Vinal Ave.Building · built 1895 · listed 1989396 ft from stop 5
- 7Parker--Burnett House48 Vinal Ave.Building · built 1873 · listed 1989135 ft from stop 6
- 8House at 42 Vinal Avenue42 Vinal Ave.Building · built 1884 · listed 198972 ft from stop 7
- 9House at 49 Vinal Avenue49 Vinal Ave.Building · built 1895 · listed 1989191 ft from stop 8
- 10Louville Niles House45 Walnut St.Building · built 1890 · listed 19890.1 mi from stop 9
- 11Louville V. Niles House97 Munroe St.Building · built 1890 · listed 198965 ft from stop 10
- 12Robert Munroe House37 Walnut St.Building · built 1849 · listed 1989234 ft from stop 11
- 13S. E. Brackett House63 Columbus Ave.Building · built 1880 · listed 1989352 ft from stop 12
- 14James H. Brooks House61 Columbus Ave.Building · built 1880 · listed 198994 ft from stop 13
- 15A. L. Lovejoy House30 Warren Ave.Building · built 1871 · listed 1989206 ft from stop 14
1.1 straight-line miles over 14 legs. Printed from registeratlas.com/tours/ma/somerville/function-houses/
Taking it along
- Download the route as GPXFor a handheld GPS or a phone app
- Open all 15 stops in Google MapsSet the mode to walking once it opens
- Open the first stop in Apple MapsThe Apple Maps web link carries one destination, so this is stop 1 only
Other walks in Somerville
- Queen Anne houses in Somerville10 stops · 1.6 milesQueen 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.
- Italianate houses in Somerville10 stops · 2.2 milesItalianate 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.
- Somerville in the 1890s15 stops · 2.0 milesEvery stop carries a construction date in the 1890s. Queen Anne style is the style recorded on more of them than any other.