613-621 Cambridge St., Cambridge, Massachusetts. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 13, 1982. NRIS 82001980.
Part of Cambridge MRA (NRIS 64000275).
1 contributing building.
The Union Railway Car Barn is an historic building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a large brick 2+1⁄2-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.
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63790510