Lynn Item Building | |
Location | 38-54 Exchange Street, Lynn, Massachusetts |
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Coordinates | 42°27′43″N70°56′41″W / 42.46194°N 70.94472°W |
Area | 0.36 acres (0.15 ha) |
Built | 1900 |
Architect | Henry Warren Rogers |
Architectural style | Italian Renaissance |
NRHP reference No. | 100009282 [1] |
Added to NRHP | August 18, 2023 |
The Lynn Item Building is a historic commercial building at 38-54 Exchange Street in downtown Lynn, Massachusetts. It was built in 1900-1901 to a design by local architect Henry Warren Rogers. [2] It was home to The Daily Item , the city's leading newspaper, until 2014, and is the city's only surviving 19th-century purpose-built newspaper building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023. [1] It was converted to mixed commercial and residential use in 2021. [3]
The Lynn Item Building is located on the east side of downtown Lynn, at the northeast corner of Exchange and Mount Vernon Streets. It is a five-story masonry structure, its exterior finished in limestone with Italian Renaissance styling. A two-story addition, built in 1971, extends along Exchange Street; it is a Modernist structure built of concrete faced in buff brick. The addition now houses the building's main entrance, following the conversion of its upper floors to residential use. [3]
The Daily Item was founded in Lynn in 1876 by Horace Hastings, and remained in that family's ownership until 2014, when it was sold to local media group. It occupied a variety of buildings in downtown Lynn (of which none survive), and built its first dedicated facility in 1891 following a major fire in the city. Due to its growth, the present building was constructed just ten years later to a design by local architect Henry Warren Rogers, and is one of the city's few commercial buildings with a limestone exterior. The addition was constructed in 1971 to a design by Abraham Woolf. [3]
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