Tom Thumb House (Middleborough, Massachusetts)
The Tom Thumb House is a historic house in Middleborough, Massachusetts. The 21⁄2 story wood-frame house was built in the 1870s as a summer home for the dwarf entertainer Charles Stratton, best known by his stage name, General Tom Thumb. It has Second Empire architecture, including a mansard roof, paired brackets in the cornice, and paired columns supporting the porch. The interior was built to meet the needs of the 3-foot-4-inch (102 cm) Stratton and his wife Lavinia, who was also a proportionate dwarf (midget,) however, few of its miniaturized features have survived.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Plymouth County, Massachusetts
- Middleborough Historical Museum, which exhibits an extensive collection of Tom Thumb's clothing and personal items from the house
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Tom Thumb House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-28.
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