The Harrison Loring House is a historic house at 789 East Broadway in the South Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is a 2+1⁄2-story brick mansion, with a mansard roof in the Second Empire style. It has brownstone trim around the windows, a modillioned cornice, and a projecting center section with its entrance sheltered by a shallow portico. It was built in 1865 for Harrison Loring, owner of the City Point Iron Works, a major South Boston shipyard, at which steamships were built in the late 19th century. Loring lived in this house until 1894.[2]
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| Location | 789 E. Broadway, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Coordinates | 42°20′7.5″N 71°1′59″W / 42.335417°N 71.03306°W |
| Area | 0.3 acres (0.12 ha) |
| Built | 1865 |
| Architectural style | Second Empire |
| NRHP reference No. | 83000604[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 01, 1983 |
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983[1] and designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 1984
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- City of Boston, Landmarks Commission. Harrison Loring House, 1981
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