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The Gleason Building (now known as G Lofts) is a historic commercial building located at 349-351 Essex Street in
Lawrence, Massachusetts Lawrence is a city located in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, on the Merrimack River. At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 89,143. Surrounding communities include Methuen to the north, Andover to the southwest, and Nort ...
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Description and history

It is a
Richardsonian Romanesque Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886). The revival style incorporates 11th and 12th century southern French, Spanish, and Italian Romanesque ...
style building, six stories (72 feet) tall, faced in brick and brownstone. It was built by William Oswald to a design by
Arthur F. Gray Arthur is a common male given name of Brittonic languages, Brythonic origin. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. The etymology is disputed. It may derive from the Celtic ''Artos'' meaning “Bear”. An ...
, and boasted the city's first
hydraulic elevator An elevator or lift is a wire rope, cable-assisted, hydraulic cylinder-assisted, or roller-track assisted machine that vertically transports people or freight between floors, levels, or deck (building), decks of a building, watercraft, ...
. The second to fourth floors of the facade are divided in two sections by brick piers that rise to round brownstone arches, with bands of sash windows on the lower two levels. The top floor is also architecturally distinctive, with four pairs of windows, each topped by a round brownstone arch. In 2006, the buildings interior was completed gutted and renovated, and subsequently converted into 15 one-bedroom loft apartments with ground-floor retail space, and the building was renamed G Lofts. The building was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on April 15, 1982.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Lawrence, Massachusetts The following properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Lawrence, Massachusetts. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lawrence, Massachu ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts This list is of that portion of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) designated in Essex County, Massachusetts. The locations of these properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may b ...


References

Commercial buildings completed in 1890 Buildings and structures in Lawrence, Massachusetts Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Lawrence, Massachusetts {{EssexCountyMA-NRHP-stub