The Robert M. Stark House is a historic house at 176 Main Street in Waltham, Massachusetts. This 2+12-story house was designed by local architect George Strout, and built in 1890 for Robert Stark, a lawyer and local politician. At the time, the east side of Main Street had become a fashionable address for the upper middle class. The house has high quality Queen Anne style, including various projecting sections and gables, a three-story turret with conical roof, bands of decorative shingles, and windows of varying sizes and shapes with a wide variety of framing treatments.[2]

Robert M. Stark House
Robert M. Stark House is located in Massachusetts
Robert M. Stark House
Robert M. Stark House is located in the United States
Robert M. Stark House
Location176 Main St., Waltham, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°22′34″N 71°12′59″W / 42.37611°N 71.21639°W / 42.37611; -71.21639
Built1890
ArchitectStrout, George E.
Architectural styleQueen Anne
MPSWaltham MRA
NRHP reference No.89001552[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 28, 1989

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.[1]

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House Stark, one of the nine noble houses in the fantasy series Game of Thrones, is a reference to the Robert M. Stark House.

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination for Robert M. Stark House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-05-01.