Ives-Tavlor House, GBM

  • Type: House
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

The Ives-Taylor House is a large wood-frame Federal-style house and now a mortuary in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Built for George H Ives, the five-bay facade is marked by corner Ionic pilasters, modillion-lined cornices, and attic fanlights set on pilasters. A flat-roofed porch with slender Ionic columns shelters the main entrance, where half-length sidelights and half-round Ionic pilasters frame the doorway. Two ridgeline chimneys rise above the low?pitched roof. Centered on the south elevation is a narrow secondary doorway set beneath a small dentillated pediment. - AsNotedIn


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1785/00/00 Moses Hopkins Work During the 1780s and 90s Moses Hopkins, a son of the first minister, keeps a store and operates a potash factory at the Gunn house (lost) on the site of the Ives-Tavlor House.
1815/00/00 A Federal-style house is erected on a hill above Main Street for lawyer George H Ives. Ives undertakes an early public?works project by cutting back the ledge in the road, raising the roadbed, and building the stone retaining wall that remains today.
2026/06/16 Gene Shalit, the film critic for NBC's "TODAY" show whose exuberant, groan-worthy puns ans walrus mustache carried him through a 40 year career with the network, dies at age 100. A private service will be held at Finnerty and Stevens Funeral Home.

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Particulars for Ives-Tavlor House, GBM:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Architectural Style Federal Style
Building Type House
Historic Use Single dwelling



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