
George Loring built for himself a house unlike the popular Queen Anne and Colonial Revival homes his firm designed in Somerville and other Boston suburbs. Loring crafted a free interpretation of seventeenth-century medieval architecture with its brick first story and wooden story-and-a-half overhang sheathed in wood shingles. Imitation handmade bricks and oriel windows with diamond-pane casements are the only concession to architectural ornament. Loring trained in the office of