James B. Barnes House
James B. Barnes House | ||
MPS Cambridge MRA | | |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001919[1] | |
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| Added to NRHP | April 13, 1982 | |
The James B. Barnes House is an historic house at 109 Hampshire Street,
Description and history
The James Barnes House now stands in Cambridge's Wellington-Harrington neighborhood, set facing west on the north side of Hampshire Street between Columbia and Union Streets. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick structure, with a side gable roof. It is five bays wide and two deep, with a center entrance set in an opening with a Federal style fanlight.[2]
The house was built in 1824 for an English glassmaker employed at the
Monsignor O'Brien Highway to accommodate a road widening project. It was moved to its present location in 1984. The house is distinctive in Cambridge as a rare example Federal period brick architecture, the only such example with a fanlight above the entrance. It is also one of the few residential buildings to survive from the early years of East Cambridge's development.[2]
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- J. H. Hobbs, Brockunier and Company
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ a b c "MACRIS inventory record for James B. Barnes House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
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