Berkeley Street Historic District

Berkeley Street Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Berkeley Street
Location	Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′40″N 71°7′32″W / 42.37778°N 71.12556°WCoordinates: 42°22′40″N 71°7′32″W / 42.37778°N 71.12556°W
Built	1852
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Late Victorian, Italian Villa, Other
MPS	Cambridge MRA
NRHP Reference #	82001920 [1] (original) 86001265 (increase)
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 13, 1982
Boundary increase	May 19, 1986

The Berkeley Street Historic District is a historic district on Berkeley Street and Berkeley Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When the district was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, it included 15 properties on Berkeley Street, a quiet residential street just outside Harvard Square. Most of these houses were built between 1852 and 1873, and are primarily in the fashionable Bracketed Italianate style of that time. A few later houses, built in the Queen Anne style, are sympathetic to the earlier houses in massing and style.^[2] Four years later the district was expanded to include most of the properties on Berkeley Place, a dead-end street off Berkeley Street. This street was developed later, with most of the houses built between 1892 and 1914. Stylistically, they are a cross section of styles fashionable at that time: Queen Anne, Shingle, and Colonial Revival.^[3]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Cambridge, Massachusetts

References

1. Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. "MACRIS inventory record for Berkeley Street Historic District (original)". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
3. "MACRIS inventory record for Berkeley Street Historic District (1986 boundary increase)". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-06.