The Charles Miles House at 131 Lincoln Street is a historic house in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1850 by Charles Miles, a clerk in the city's treasury department, it was once described as one of the city's finest Italianate residences. The house is a two-story wood-frame structure, three bays wide, with a hip roof and modern siding.
When the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, it was noted for features that have since been lost to exterior alteration. These included corner quoining, a modillioned cornice, and a widow's walk. Originally, the windows were also capped by lintels set on consoles.
Some original details remain visible on the exterior. A single-story hip-roofed porch extends across the front façade with square posts and arched openings. The porch roof eave features dentil molding, a detail that repeats in a projecting polygonal window bay on the right side of the house.
Dr. Thomas P. Coyle occupied the house from 1960 until 1983 and restored much of the first floor interior. Since 2017, the house has been owned by 131 Lincoln Street, LLC, and has been converted to professional office space. The building currently serves as the home for the firm Kovacs Law, P.C.
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Written by Kyle McLonely
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