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Lechmere Point Corporation Houses

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Built
  
1821

NRHP Reference #
  
82001957

Area
  
4,047 m²

Added to NRHP
  
13 April 1982

MPS
  
Cambridge MRA

Opened
  
1821

Architectural style
  
Federal architecture

Lechmere Point Corporation Houses

Location
  
Cambridge, Massachusetts

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

The Lechmere Point Corporation Houses is a historic apartment rowhouse at 45-51 Gore St. and 25 3rd Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Built sometime before 1821, this 2.5 story brick and wood structure is the only surviving building to be built by the Lechmere Point Corporation, which developed East Cambridge in the early decades of the 19th century. The house was owned for a time by lawyer and politician Christopher Gore, a principal of the corporation who also speculated in area real estate. Two of the buildings (25 3rd Street and 45 Gore Street) have retained their original gable roofs, while 49 Gore Street has been raised to a full three stories and given arched windows, and 51 Gore Street has had a mansard roof added.

The houses were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Lechmere Point Corporation Houses Wikipedia