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FORM B - BUILDING - MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL COMMISSION Office of the Secretary, State House, Boston - - - - - - - - In Area no. E. Camb. Form no. EC IIB1 1. Town Cambridge Address _613-621 Cambridge Street Name_Union Railway Car Barn" Present use commercial \ 2. Photo (3x3" or 3x5") Staple to left side of form Photo number ||O1-1A CAMBRIDGS AssESsaRs Present owner Leo and Sophie Silver 621 Cambridge St., Camb. 3. Description: Date 1869 Source_ assessor/deed records Style late Greek Revival Architect_ unknown Exterior wall fabric_ Outbuildings (describe) brick Other features_Low-pitched gabled roof with unusual stepped brick cornice terminating in shallow brick piers. Altered No Date = Moved_ No Date_-- 5. Lot size: One acre or less Over one acre Approximate frontage _85 leet Approximate distance of building from street 0 Feet 6.
Recorded by Bainbridge Bunting OrganizationCambridge Historical Comm Date__1964.. UTM-BOSTON SOUTH 19/32816014692980 #35-36 30M-5-77 7. Original owner (if known)_Union Railway Company Original use horse car barns Subsequent uses (if any) and dates_commercial 8. Themes (check asmany as applicable) Aboriginal Agricultural Architectural The Arts Commerce Communication Community development XX XX Conservation Education Exploration/ settlement Industry Military Political XX Recreation Religion Science/ invention Social/ humanitarian Transportation 9. Historical significance (include explanation of themes checked above) XX The Union Railway Company was established in 1855 by Gardiner G. Hubbard to provide horse car service By 1856 cars began running along Cambridge Street, and in 1859 a branch opened along Third Street from Cambridgeport into East Cambridge.
By 1875 the company provided half hourly service from Harvard Square to Boston via Cambridge Street and East Cambridge. Io house its horse cars, the Union Railway in 1869 built a complex of brick carbarns along Cambridge Street near Lambert Street. Other Union Railway carbarns built in 1860 on Mt. Auburn Street near the cemetery and in 1874 on Massachusetts Avenue north of Porter Square have been drastically remodeled or demolished, making the Cambridge Street carbarn an unusual survivor. A large round arched window within a recessed brick arch forms the central focus of the facade. Although the first floor facade has been altered by the addition of a storefront, the building remains relatively intact and represents an important phase of the city's transportation history. 10.
Bibliography and/or references (such as local histories, deeds, assessor's records, early maps, etc.) NOV 14 B8oi ._. - ... NPS Form 10-900-a (7-81) United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form Continuation sheet Item number UND NU.1UC4-VU1S EXP. 12/31/84 For NPS use only received date entered Page 4 ah7 Multiple Resource Area Thematie Group Name State Cambridge Multiple Resource Area MA Nomination/Type of Review 31. Bottle House Block 32. Building at 42 Edward J. Lopez Avenue 33. East Cambridge Savings Bank 634. Hoyt, Benjamin, House 35. 36. Lechmere Point Corporation Houses Sacred Heart Church, Rectory, School and Convent '37. Union Railway Car Barn 38. 5 Tuatr 39. 40. B and B Chemical Company Baker House Substantive RevIew DÕE/OWNER OBJECTION Beth Israel Synagogue Keeper Date/Signature Wieliam H.
Brackam 4.13.82 Attest Keeper WiliamH.Bracham 4.13.82 Attest Keeper Attest William A. Arackam 4.13.82 Substantive Review / Keeper Welliam H.Bracham 4.13.82 Attest V Keeper Weuam H. Bracham 4.13.82 Attest Keeper WuliamH Bracham 4.13.82 Attest Keeper William H. Bracham 4.13.82 Attest SubafantIve HeviewKeeper WueiamH.Brashom 4.13.82 Attest Determined Attest Keeper Attest Wilkiam H.Bracham 413.82 ntlve RevIew NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES United States Department of the interior National Park Service EVALUATION / RETURN | SHEET Union Räulwualy CAR Baka (CAmbridge Property:- multple Anea) Working No. 11-14-80-2862 State, County:- MA- Middleset Fed. Reg. Date:.
Federal Agency: Date Due: 4/n/82 Action: ACCEPT_4/13/82 resubmission -RETURN- nomination by person or local government - REJECT- owner objection photos L appeal maps - Substantive Review: - sample - request - appeal NR decision Reviower's comments: Dignficant as paut ofdevelopment of city and the roce that transportation played in that development. - Relatien intant example- Recom. /Criteria_A Reviower /zraiaam Discipline auch /tis Date 4,2.82 _ see continuation sheet -Nomination returned for: _ technical corrections cited below -substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification pory Ounership Public Acqutsition 4. Owner of Property Satus Accossible Prozant Uso 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys has thie property been determined eligibte? -yes - no 7.
Description Conditien .excellent good tair deteriorated ruins unexposed chock ene _ unaltered _ altered Chock one - - original site - moved date - pcortbo the procant and artetnal (1l known) plryatcal appoeranco summary paragraph completeness clarity alterations/integrity dates boundary selection 8. Significance Parted Anoes of stamiilcencs Chack and heattty bator pocitic dater Dratamant ef stgniticanco (in eno peragrasto) Sullder/Arehitee summary paragraph completeness clarity applicable criteria justification of areas checked relating significance to the resource context relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quedrengle neme. UMT Reterences Varbel boundery doscriation and huatticatton 11. Form Prepared By 12.
State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evalusted significance of thie property within the state is: . netional . state local Aate Historic Preeervation Officer signature 13. Other Maps Photographs Other Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to Signed Date. Phone: 202 272-3504 Comments for any Item may be continued on an attached sheet 1SCE LIVE POULTRY Fresh KILLED JLTRYco. EGGS 1101-1IA NOV 1 4 1980 canhrilge MRA Ma 079C unin Radluag Car Barn 613-621 Cambridge St. 1101-11A Please refer to the map in the Multiple Property Cover Sheet for this property Multiple Property Cover Sheet Reference Number: 64000275