 The Babson-Alling House is one of Gloucester’s best preserved, high-style examples of Georgian architecture, both in its exterior detailing and its interior pannelling.The design is particularly notable for its Georgian modillioned cornic, Federal period entryways, and Federal Revival front portico.In 1934, the White Pine “Pencil Point Series”– a major documentary source for Colonial architecture– wrote that the house “contains one of the most beautiful all-paneled rooms in the State (and one of the two still remaining upon Cape Ann) with a most interesting staircase.” (Whitehead, ed.