The residential neighborhood northwest of Christ Episcopal Church includes some of Cambridge’s finest houses, many built by the political elite or prominent businesspeople. This house is one of a few distinguished eighteenth-century structures remaining among the predominantly nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century development. Several generations of the politically active Goldsborough family owned this five-bay, center-hall brick house built for Charles Goldsborough, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor of Maryland in the early nineteenth century. The original single-pile house received a rear wing shortly after its completion. The front porch and such interior details as plaster ceiling medallions were likely added after 1832.