Downer Rowhouses

Downer Rowhouses
The Adams Street building.
Location Somerville, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°23′42″N 71°5′58″W / 42.39500°N 71.09944°WCoordinates: 42°23′42″N 71°5′58″W / 42.39500°N 71.09944°W
Area less than one acre
Built 1880
Architectural style Second Empire
Governing body Private
MPS Somerville MPS
NRHP Reference # 89001225[1]
Added to NRHP September 18, 1989

The Downer Rowhouses are two sets of Second Empire row houses that are back to back at 55 Adams Street and 192-200 Central Street, Somerville, Massachusetts. They have patterned slate roofs, carved stone lintels, and bracketed door hoods. They both are five unit buildings, tall and narrow, with full-height polygonal bays and a projecting cornice.[2] They were built c. 1880 on speculation by developer Cutler Downer, at a time when the Winter Hill area of the city was a popular and fashionable residential area.[3]

They were separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 1989 as Downer Rowhouses (Central Street) and Downer Rowhouses (Adams Street), references numbers 89001241 and 89001225.

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  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13.
  2. ↑ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Somerville Multiple Resource Area". National Park Service. 2009-10-12.
  3. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Downer Rowhouses (Adams Street)". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-02-28.