Harrison Loring House

Coordinates: 42°20′7.5″N 71°1′59″W / 42.335417°N 71.03306°W / 42.335417; -71.03306
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Harrison Loring House
Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°20′7.5″N 71°1′59″W / 42.335417°N 71.03306°W / 42.335417; -71.03306
Area0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built1865
Architectural styleSecond Empire
NRHP reference No.83000604[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 01, 1983

The Harrison Loring House is a historic house at 789 East Broadway in the

Second Empire style. It has brownstone trim around the windows, a modillioned cornice, and a projecting center section with its entrance sheltered by a shallow portico. It was built in 1865 for Harrison Loring, owner of the City Point Iron Works, a major South Boston shipyard, at which steamships were built in the late 19th century. Loring lived in this house until 1894.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983[1] and designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1984

See also

  • National Register of Historic Places listings in southern Boston, Massachusetts

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "#53 Harrison Loring Estate Study Report_tcm3-41249.pdf" (PDF).

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