Shell Oil Company "Spectacular" Sign

Coordinates: 42°21′24.5″N 71°06′51.9″W / 42.356806°N 71.114417°W / 42.356806; -71.114417
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Shell Oil Company "Spectacular" Sign
Shell Oil Company "Spectacular" Sign is located in Massachusetts
Shell Oil Company "Spectacular" Sign
Shell Oil Company "Spectacular" Sign is located in the United States
Shell Oil Company "Spectacular" Sign
LocationCambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°21′24.5″N 71°06′51.9″W / 42.356806°N 71.114417°W / 42.356806; -71.114417
Built1933
ArchitectDonnelly Electric Manufacturing Co.
Architectural styleModerne
NRHP reference No.94000546 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 3, 1994

The Shell Oil Company "Spectacular" Sign is a historic sign at 187 Magazine Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The Shell Oil Company sign was built in a Moderne style in 1933 by Donnelly Electric Manufacturing Company, and was originally located on the Shell Company building in Boston on Commonwealth Avenue, which now houses Boston University Academy. It was moved to its present site adjacent to Memorial Drive in 1944. It is, along with the Citgo sign in Boston, one of only two surviving advertising signs of its type in the area.[2]

The sign was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.[1]

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References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Shell Sign". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-23.