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Cheney Read House

Coordinates: 42°21′54.5″N 71°06′30.7″W / 42.365139°N 71.108528°W / 42.365139; -71.108528
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Cheney Read House
Cheney Read House is located in Massachusetts
Cheney Read House
Cheney Read House is located in the United States
Cheney Read House
LocationCambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°21′54.5″N 71°06′30.7″W / 42.365139°N 71.108528°W / 42.365139; -71.108528
Built1846
ArchitectHyde, William
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPSCambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.82001971 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1982

The Cheney Read House is an historic house at 135 Western Avenue in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The 2+12-story wood-frame house was built in 1846 by William Hyde, and is the only house in Cambridge's Cambridgeport neighborhood with a two-story Greek portico. It has four full-height Doric columns, with a gable end that is steeper than the usual Greek Revival style. It has a side-entry plan, with the entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a pedimented lintel.[2]

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "MACRIS inventory record for Cheney Read House". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-22.