The Union Railway Car Barn is an historic building 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.[2]
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| Location | 613–621 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°22′19.4″N 71°05′11.1″W / 42.372056°N 71.086417°W |
| Built | 1869 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival |
| MPS | Cambridge MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 82001980[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 13, 1982 |
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]
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edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
- ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Union Railway Carbarn". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-24.