Built 1869 NRHP Reference # 82001980 Area 4,047 m² | MPS Cambridge MRA Opened 1869 Added to NRHP 13 April 1982 | |
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Architectural style Greek Revival architecture Similar Lechmere Canal, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Square, Cambridge Common, Semitic Museum | ||
The Union Railway Car Barn is an historic building at 613-621 Cambridge Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a large brick 2 1⁄2-story building, with a distinctive round-arch central window and a stepped brick cornice. Its ground floor has been converted to a retail storefront. It was built in 1869 to house the horse-drawn streetcars of the Union Railway Company, founded in 1855. It is the only surviving car barn of three built by the company in Cambridge, and a rare surviving element of the city's 19th-century transportation infrastructure.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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