351 Plymouth St., Middleborough, Massachusetts. County/parish: Plymouth.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 16, 1993. NRIS 93000298.
1 contributing building.
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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63796598