After graduating from Harvard in 1774, David Osgood moved to Medford to serve as minister for the town's parish church. Records of the costs for materials in building his two-and-a-half-story house in 1785 survive, as do Osgood's diaries. The windows are framed well out from the clapboard facade, and the roof comes down to the second floor windows. A center bay doorway framed with pilasters and
Keith N. Morgan, "Unitarian Universalist Parsonage and Unitarian Universalist Church", [Medford, Massachusetts], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MA-01-MD11.
Buildings of Massachusetts: Metropolitan Boston, Keith N. Morgan, with Richard M. Candee, Naomi Miller, Roger G. Reed, and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009, 409-410.
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