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Union Railway Car Barn

Coordinates: 42°22′19.4″N 71°05′11.1″W / 42.372056°N 71.086417°W / 42.372056; -71.086417
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Union Railway Car Barn
Union Railway Car Barn is located in Massachusetts
Union Railway Car Barn
Union Railway Car Barn is located in the United States
Union Railway Car Barn
Location613–621 Cambridge Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°22′19.4″N 71°05′11.1″W / 42.372056°N 71.086417°W / 42.372056; -71.086417
Built1869
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPSCambridge MRA
NRHP reference No.82001980[1]
Added to NRHPApril 13, 1982

The Union Railway Car Barn is an historic building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a large brick 2+12-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]

The building 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 Union Railway Carbarn". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-24.