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Isaac Melvin (1811-1853) was an American
architect An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to provide services in connection with the design of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings that h ...
from
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. Melvin was born in
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in 1811. In the 1830s, he established himself as a builder in Lexington. In 1841 he relocated to
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, where he added architecture to his profession. In about 1848 he gave up construction, taking up solely architecture. He formed a partnership with Isaiah B. Young (who had worked with him since 1846), and the two opened an office in
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. They dissolved their partnership in 1852, when Melvin decided to go to
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. He grew ill on the voyage, and died in San Francisco soon after his arrival. After Melvin's departure, Young pursued an architectural career in Boston,
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, and
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.


Works

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Stone Building The Ellen Stone Building, built in 1833, is an historic Greek Revival style building located at 735 Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington, Massachusetts. It was originally a meeting hall and lyceum for East Lexington, which had its own civic identit ...
, 735 Massachusetts Ave., East Lexington, MA (1833) * Isaac Melvin House, 19 Centre St., Cambridge, MA (1842) * Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1801 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA (1845) * Samuel Chandler House, 8 Goodwin Rd., Lexington, MA (1846) * Lexington Town Hall, 1475 Massachusetts Ave., Lexington, MA (1846) - Demolished. * Mount Pleasant Congregational Society, Roxbury, MA (1846) - Demolished. * First Church of Christ, 136 Main St., Sandwich, MA (1847) * First Parish Church, 7 Harrington Rd., Lexington, MA (1847) * Lawrence City Hall, 100 Common St., Lawrence, MA (1848–49) - Remodeled in 1923 by George G. Adams. * Porter Congregational Church, 33 N. Main St.,
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(1850) * Allen Street Congregational Church, Allen & Orchard Sts., Cambridge, MA (1851) - Demolished. * Somerville City Hall,
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(1851–52)''Annual Reports of the Expenditures of Somerville, also the Taxes Assessed, for the Year 1851'' (Somerville: Town of Somerville, 1852) * Arlington Town Hall, Massachusetts Ave. & Mystic St., Arlington, MA (1852–53) - Demolished. * Union No. 2 Engine House, 789 Main St., Cambridge, MA (1852)"Union #2 Engine House". ''mhc-macris.net''. Massachusetts Historical Commission, n.d. Web.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Melvin, Isaac 1811 births 1853 deaths Architects from Cambridge, Massachusetts Architects from Boston 19th-century American architects People from Lexington, Massachusetts