Lovell Block
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Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°23′16.1″N 71°7′8.4″W / 42.387806°N 71.119000°WCoordinates: 42°23′16.1″N 71°7′8.4″W / 42.387806°N 71.119000°W |
Built | 1882 |
Architectural style | Queen Anne |
MPS | Cambridge MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 83000814 [1] |
Added to NRHP | June 30, 1983 |
The Lovell Block is an historic residential and commercial building at 1853 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The three story brick building was built in 1882 by Andrew Jackson Lovell, with two specific commercial tenants in mind. One was his own grocery business, and the other was the North Cambridge Post Office. The upper floors contained a total of four well-appointed residential flats. The building was an early instance of a mixed-use residential-commercial structure, at a time when most lower-income housing was tenement-style, and the idea of higher-quality residential rental property was relatively new.[2]
The block was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
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References[]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Lovell Block". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-20.
External links[]
Media related to Lovell Block (Cambridge, Massachusetts) at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- Commercial buildings completed in 1882
- Commercial blocks on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- National Register of Historic Places in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
- Cambridge, Massachusetts Registered Historic Place stubs