Frances and Isabella Apartments

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Frances and Isabella Apartments
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Location Boston, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°19′27″N71°4′29″W / 42.32417°N 71.07472°W / 42.32417; -71.07472
Built1887;136 years ago (1887)
ArchitectGoldsmith, Jacob & Co.
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No. 02000081 [1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 22, 2002

The Frances and Isabella Apartments are historic apartments at 430-432 and 434-436 Dudley Street in Boston, Massachusetts. They are a pair of three-story brick buildings, with distinctive corner towers with conical roofs, built with Queen Anne styling in 1887. Originally with two apartments per floor, they were subdivided further in 1952, and converted to lodging rooms in 1981. In the early 2000s the floor plan was again altered, to more closely resemble the 1952 plan. [2]

The apartments were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "NRHP nomination for Frances and Isabella Apartments". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-15.