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Cheney Read House

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Built
  
1846

NRHP Reference #
  
82001971

Area
  
4,047 m²

MPS
  
Cambridge MRA

Opened
  
1846

Added to NRHP
  
13 April 1982

Cheney Read House

Location
  
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival architecture

Similar
  
Lechmere Canal, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Square, Cambridge Common, Semitic Museum

The Cheney Read House is an historic house at 135 Western Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The 2.5 story wood frame house was built in 1846 by William Hyde, and is the only house in Cambridge's Cambridgeport neighborhood with a two-story Greek portico. It has four full-height Doric columns, with a gable end that is steeper than the usual Greek Revival style. It has a side-entry plan, with the entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a pedimented lintel.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Cheney Read House Wikipedia