{"id":8573,"date":"2020-07-11T13:18:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=8573"},"modified":"2020-07-11T13:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T17:24:26","slug":"george-perkins-house-1879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=8573","title":{"rendered":"George Perkins House (1879)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/50-Pleasant-Street-Gloucester.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"784\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/50-Pleasant-Street-Gloucester.jpg 665w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/50-Pleasant-Street-Gloucester-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>An example of Stick style architecture, <a href=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/50-Pleasant-Street-scaled.jpg\">the house<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/mhc-macris.net\/Details.aspx?MhcId=GLO.53\">50 Pleasant Street<\/a> in Gloucester was built in 1879-1880 <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=7qDqrBBiyQQC&#038;lpg=PA809&#038;ots=HS01Y0WmXL&#038;dq=george%20perkins%20%26%20son%20gloucester&#038;pg=PA809#v=onepage&#038;q=george%20perkins%20&#038;%20son%20gloucester&#038;f=false\">for George H. Perkins<\/a>. He was head of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/1891-GEORGE-PERKINS-SON-DRY-PICKLED-FISH-MACKEREL-SALT-GLOUCESTER-MASS-NR-\/264605620528\">George Perkins &#038; Son<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4RtJm7fnrQkC&#038;lpg=PA691&#038;ots=ZcEuiTTMiq&#038;dq=george%20perkins%20%26%20son%20gloucester&#038;pg=PA691#v=onepage&#038;q=george%20perkins%20&#038;%20son%20gloucester&#038;f=false\">fish dealers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=F96sPoC2ZGgC&#038;lpg=PA83&#038;ots=o4L29RoRVM&#038;dq=george%20perkins%20%26%20son%20gloucester&#038;pg=PA83#v=onepage&#038;q=george%20perkins%20&#038;%20son%20gloucester&#038;f=false\">whose office<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=SkwWAAAAYAAJ&#038;lpg=PA270&#038;ots=ainjwocidr&#038;dq=george%20h%20perkins%20gloucester&#038;pg=PA270#v=onepage&#038;q=george%20h%20perkins%20gloucester&#038;f=false\">located<\/a> at Perkins&#8217; Wharf. <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=CpFJAAAAMAAJ&#038;lpg=RA1-PA132&#038;ots=T3tTWPFd0F&#038;dq=perkins%20wharf%20gloucester&#038;pg=RA1-PA133#v=onepage&#038;q=perkins%20wharf%20gloucester&#038;f=false\">Perkins<\/a> later served as Vice President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=fFz6Uyqb1lsC&#038;lpg=PA1336&#038;ots=F58tV2673L&#038;dq=george%20h%20perkins%20first%20national%20bank&#038;pg=PA1336#v=onepage&#038;q=george%20h%20perkins%20first%20national%20bank&#038;f=false\">First National Bank<\/a> from 1890 to 1900. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trulia.com\/p\/ma\/gloucester\/50-pleasant-st-2-gloucester-ma-01930--2001152254\">The house<\/a> is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homedetails\/50-Pleasant-St-UNIT-1-Gloucester-MA-01930\/68970499_zpid\/\">subdivided<\/a> into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zillow.com\/homedetails\/50-Pleasant-St-UNIT-3-Gloucester-MA-01930\/68970491_zpid\/\">several condo units<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/George-Perkins-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"665\" height=\"606\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/George-Perkins-House.jpg 665w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/George-Perkins-House-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An example of Stick style architecture, the house at 50 Pleasant Street in Gloucester was built in 1879-1880 for George H. Perkins. He was head of George Perkins &#038; Son, fish dealers, whose office was located at Perkins&#8217; Wharf. Perkins later served as Vice President of the First National Bank from 1890 to 1900. The house is now subdivided into several condo units.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,8,109],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-8573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gloucester","category-houses","category-stick-style","tag-mansard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8573"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8588,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8573\/revisions\/8588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}