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The Riviera (Boston, Massachusetts)

Coordinates: 42°20′30″N 71°5′9″W / 42.34167°N 71.08583°W / 42.34167; -71.08583
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The Riviera
The Riviera (Boston, Massachusetts) is located in Massachusetts
The Riviera (Boston, Massachusetts)
The Riviera (Boston, Massachusetts) is located in the United States
The Riviera (Boston, Massachusetts)
LocationBoston, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°20′30″N 71°5′9″W / 42.34167°N 71.08583°W / 42.34167; -71.08583
Built1923
ArchitectFred A. Norcross
Architectural styleClassical Revival
NRHP reference No.95001450 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 7, 1995

The Riviera is an historic apartment building at 270 Huntington Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1923, it is a seven-story brick and concrete structure developed by Coleman & Gilbert and designed by Fred A. Norcross. Norcross was a prolific builder of apartment and tenement blocks for the city's burgeoning immigrant population. The building has an asymmetrical facade, divided into four similarly styled sections, each of which has a band of three sash windows on the left and a projecting polygonal bay on the right. A few of the three-window groups have shallow balconies with low balustrades in front of them.[2]

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "NRHP nomination and MACRIS inventory record for The Riviera". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-06-20.