Union Railway Car Barn

Union Railway Car Barn
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	613–621 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′19.4″N71°05′11.1″W / 42.372056°N 71.086417°W / 42.372056; -71.086417
Built	1869
Architectural style	Greek Revival
MPS	Cambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.	82001980 [1]
Added to NRHP	April 13, 1982

The Union Railway Car Barn is an historic building 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]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "MACRIS inventory record for Union Railway Carbarn". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved March 24, 2014.