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South End District

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Location
  
Boston, Massachusetts

Boundary increase
  
December 29, 2014

Year built
  
1848

Architect
  
Multiple

Area
  
96 ha

Added to NRHP
  
8 May 1973

South End District

Architectural style
  
Greek Revival, Late Victorian, Italianate

NRHP Reference #
  
73000324  (original) 14001095 (increase)

The South End District is a historic district encompassing a portion of the South End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is bounded roughly by the Southwest Corridor Park on the northwest, the Massachusetts Turnpike to the north, Herald Street to the east, AlbanyStreet to the south east, and Massachusetts Avenue to the southwest. The area's principal development took place 1850-73, and resulted in a neighborhood of what were originally single-family brick or brownstone rowhouses, interspersed with retail and civic buildings, as well as six small parks. After the Panic of 1873 these properties were for the most part converted to multi-unit housing.

The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. In 2014 it was expanded to include additional properties on the 200 block of Harrison Street.

References

South End District Wikipedia