Union Railway Car Barn

Union Railway Car Barn
Location Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°22′19″N 71°5′13″W / 42.37194°N 71.08694°W / 42.37194; -71.08694Coordinates: 42°22′19″N 71°5′13″W / 42.37194°N 71.08694°W / 42.37194; -71.08694
Built 1869
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Greek Revival
MPS Cambridge MRA
NRHP Reference #

82001980

[1]
Added to NRHP April 13, 1982

The Union Railway Car Barn is an historic building at 613-621 Cambridge Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a large brick  2 1⁄2-story building, with a distinctive round-arch central window and a stepped brick cornice. Its ground floor has been converted to a retail storefront. It was built in 1869 to house the horse-drawn streetcars of the Union Railway Company, founded in 1855. It is the only surviving car barn of three built by the company in Cambridge, and a rare surviving element of the city's 19th-century transportation infrastructure.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "MACRIS inventory record for Union Railway Carbarn". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-24.


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